On 8/13/02 10:14 AM, "Nathan A. McQuillen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Of course, this assumes that you don't have jerky DSL providers that > withhold static IPs, cap your upstream speed, massively oversell their > lines, etcetera. At the very least, I'd ask for client references from > whatever providers you're considering. In all honesty? While there are idiot ISPs out there, most of these complaints seem to come from people trying to grab $30/mo client accounts and magically turn them into SOHO-type networks where they weren't designed to be used for that, are probably violating their ISP's EULA, and then kvetch when it doesn't work, they get caught, or the ISP closes the network loopholes they were taking advantage of. It's most times not idiot ISPs, but users trying to get away with not paying for the services they want to use. Me, I've ALWAYS bought a SOHO-style network, where my ISP knows I'm running servers and I'm not in violation of my EULA and hoping to not get caught. It costs somewhat more, but it's legal. (in fact, my first ISP, back in 1995, I had to teach them how to set up their system to ALLOW my server to be a mail server, since they'd never had that situation before... Grin) I've found if you actually pay for the type of service you're trying to use, these problems magically go away..... -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ No! No! Dead girl, OFF the table! -- Shrek ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
