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In article <01bc0227$1182dbe0$0100007f@ronwebb>, "Ron Webb" <rwp@ftn.net> wrote:
>What a case of "chopping off your nose to spite your face"!! Fact is, the
>MS browser is a fine piece of software.

Agreed.  Not to mention the fact that it comes with quality news and 
email clients and it's also free for everybody (much unlike Netscape 
if you read the license agreement).

>I don't want a "big" company either. All I want is access to E-mail, WWW,
>and News Groups. All other "extras" offered by companies like ISTAR are of
>absolutely no interest.

Who needs extras?  Trouble is these days that the big companies are 
eating up the small ISPs and driving good service out of business.

>Is there any way for the consumer to beat these monstrous and useless
>situations?

Unfortunately the only alternative is to support the smaller ISPs 
which will no doubtedly charge more.  There are not many other 
options.

Mike.


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Mike Frisch                               Email: mfrisch@rogerswave.ca
Northstar Technologies                 WWW: http://www.io.org/~mfrisch
Newmarket, Ontario, CANADA