On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Chuck Swiger wrote: > At least at one point, ISPs were expected to provide more than just > bare Internet connectivity-- they were supposed to provide working > DNS, NTP, SMTP/POP/IMAP, and even NNTP/Usenet feeds.
You forget homepages, commercial hosting, telehousing, web design, web proxy and IRC servers. Seriously though most of the above aren't as common because the cost of bandwidth has decreased enough [1] that the saving for the end user by using the ISP's server is nill. The ISP then has to compete against specialist providers across the country/world who drop the price of the service right down (sometimes to nothing) and/or take the best of the paying customers. For NTP there is no possibility of charging but providing local NTP servers costs the provider in servers, monitoring, software support and help desk calls. [1] I remember when bandwidth cost $10 per megabyte transfered. -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT. _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
