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From: Rebecca Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 6:45 PM
Subject: [SLUG] Re: an ISP to avoid
> Hey everyone,
>
> I've been reading this thread with interest, and have some comments to
> make:
>
> 1) I don't see what's so bad about Telstra BigPond ADSL. It's nice and
> quick (for me)
Ditto here - no blues yet... and despite the fact I'm routed via Melbourne,
I still get around 50ms latency to my machine at work... I'm not complaining
at all :)
> (b) that shit happens, I don't have a defined SLA with which to bash
Telstra about the head with when things go wrong, and that
This is probably the only problem with consumer accounts as they stand... :/
Bandwidth == Expensive, and no SLA.
> (c) the Internet is unreliable anyway, so I live with it, and work around
it.
The 50ms from home to work is a breeze compared from the 500ms from work to
our servers in the US. We live with it on a day to day basis.
> 2) for those people who have yet to read the email etiquette guide,
> please do so. I am sick and tired of downloading emails where someone
> makes two lines of comments, and then includes 60+ lines of original
> message below it (including the slug footer and the original message
> that that person was replying to).
uh! Can I plead insanity?
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