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In message <6k2lml$1ul$1@joe.rice.edu>, Richard Cobbe 
<cobbe@new-world.cs.rice.edu> wrote:
| I'm now living in Dallas, TX, and I'm looking for a good, linux-friendly
| ISP in the area.  Does anyone have any suggestions?
| 
| I'm specifically looking for:
| 
| * mail that I can DL to my Linux system with fetchmail or something similar
|   (so mail via POP3, IMAP, etc.), and then send back up with sendmail.
| * PPP, not SLIP
| * 56K transfer rate would be nice
| * news server
| 
| and of course the ability to run other TCP/IP apps---ftp. netscape, etc.
| I'm not that interested in creating my own web page, so free storage space
| for that is pretty much irrelevant.
| 
| I'd love to hear any suggestions.

As a Houston native I am not very aware of the Internet providers in
the Dallas area. However, the most you should need are the numeric IP
addresses of the nameservers, and the ability to have your pppd start
talking PPP at the login prompt (threw me for a loop the first time I
tried this, I didn't think it could possibly work) and authenticate
using either PAP and CHAP. Other than that just have your sendmail use
your ISP's mailservers as a smarthost (actually you can usually send
directly to the receiving mailserver but some will reject mail from
dial-up IP addresses due to spam problems).

If all else fails, ask what operating system they are running on the
other end. Odds are if it's Linux or any other flavor of Unix you have
a great chance of making the connection work.

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