> [...] It makes me think some serious shaking out needs to happen in the > ISP industry, and I'm really wondering if the future of Internet > connectivity isn't paying one company to just provide you with a pipe > and paying a different company that actually knows something about mail > to provide you with mail services.
This is exactly what I do. I fetch my mail from my hosting company. My connection is provided by my local clueless cable monopoly and I read and post news through news.cis.dfn.de. Unfortunately, I still PAY my local clueless cable monopoly for all of these services. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ Relativism is the triumph of authority over truth, convention over justice
