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Re: Free Internet

#2089
From: Mark Gillespie
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 00:00
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I used to be with Global, I'm now with a free ISP, the service is on par
with GLobal's but �105 a year cheaper.  I find IXUK pretty good, the usenet
feed is particually good for a free ISP.

If you do go with a freebie, don't forget to change your Friends and Family
numbers!!!!


Mal Stone <malstone@dircon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:365F422E.3ECF58B@dircon.co.uk...
>
>
> peter wrote:
>
> > In article <LO5PILAFRwX2Iwg8@web-sights.demon.co.uk>, "Nigel J. Carron"
> > <njc-2@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> >
> > > In article <Fly72.1579$6%4.11965@news14.ispnews.com>, Melanie Gosselin
> > > <melanie@efortress.com> writes
> > > >Nothing is free!!!  I subscribe to eFortress.  For 18.95/mo. you get
10mb
> > > >web space, two accounts, including two email accounts.  I have never
ever
> > > >ever gotten a busy signal trying to connect.  I'd rather pay
18.95/mo.
> > > >instead of getting royally scr!@#$ed thinking I'm getting something
for
> > > >nothing.
> > >
> > > Well I pay Demon �11.75 a month for a service that is Far, far worse
> > > than the one from Freeserve. I am just about to dump Demon, their ISDN
> > > service is dire, often slow & often difficult to connect to..
Freeserve
> > > is faster & nearly 100% first time connection..
> >
> > Not for me it isn't. Demon is still faster and never any waiting, mind
you
> > I'm one of the poor one's without ISDN :-)
> > Peter
> >
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>
> Well I was with Demon and I found that they were getting far too big!
>
> As a Mac user their tech support was none exhistant.
> The final crunch came when I had to send a picture file to an important
art
> director only to find the system down due to a technical failure!
> I had to copy it onto a disk and take the tube ....hardly high tech stuff!
> I found Dircon who are �25 per year cheaper and give me 20mg of webspace.
> ALL their tech staff are Mac trained and the only time the system was down
when
> I tried to connect in the last 6 months they had the decency to put a
recorded
> on the spot message announcing a problem and that it was being delt with -
no
> waiting to get through, only to find it wasn't my machine at fault!
>
> I see that Dircon are a recommended direct internet access on the iMac!
>
> Thank you Dircon.
>
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From: "Mark Gillespie" <homersimspson@bigfeet.com>
Subject: Re: Free Internet
Date: 1999/04/12
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