On 08-Jan-00, you wrote:
> A business using Freeserve, Tesco.net or any of the other
> "free" ISPs begs to me the question why they are going the
> "free" route.
I have several accounts with "free" ISPs and my company uses
Netdirect for their domain hosting.
They have been with Netdirect over 2 years now, and support
is ok, connection is generally good (sometimes gets busy
during the morning, but excellent outside business hours),
and you get 50MB of free web space for business use.They
also run a free service for consumers, called nd0.
AbelGratis support Amigas to a limited degree, but Genesis
sometimes has trouble finding their DNS servers (Miami
works fine).
They, and some other ISPs, offer a choice of domain names,
none of which include the word "free".(E.g. my domain name
is hammer.omnia.co.uk,there are other email addresses such
as [EMAIL PROTECTED])
So, there is not necessarily a "free ISP" stigma.
In general, though, the smaller ISPs who haven't moved to
offering "free"dailup seem to be struggling.As they lose
revenue due to people moving across to the free dailups,
support seems to be the first department to falter.
After 2 years, I dumped my "paid-for" provider when emails
to their support department were no longer acknowledged.
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It is impossible to make anything foolproof,because fools
are so ingenious.
Components that cannot and must not be incorrectly
assembled,will be.
All constants are variables.
In any given computation,the figure that is most obviously
correct will be
the source of error.
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