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Damon Riley <rileyd@wam.umd.edu> wrote:
: Hi.  Are you happy with Linux support for your private/home
: use ISP?  Are you happy with your ISP otherwise?

: Suggestions are welcome.  If you write to me directly I'll
: post a summary to the group later.

: For my own use I'm looking for: 1. rare busy signals; 2. web
: server space up to 20 MB; 3. USENET; 4. the flexibility to
: use Linux and Windows.

I wrote for suggestions in this newsgroup once and was turned on to 
patriot.net. They are based in virginia but have local access numbers just 
about everywhere in the greater D.C. area. I can't remember when the last 
time was that I had a busy signal with them. They run Linux but more 
important they tell you they run Linux and support user's who use Linux. 
Unlike some other ISP's locally who run Linux and then tell you they won't 
support you if you do. They provide USENET via supernews. I only get 10 MB 
local disk space but I get a shell account. You can get more disk space 
but you will pay more. The few times I have had trouble getting through I 
merely called another access point and got in. The exception being one 
time when they were the victim of a DOS attack. This they admitted caused 
them outaqes unlike my last ISP who simply left you in the dark for 
days when it happened to them.

: Damon
: rileyd@wam.umd.edu  for a little while longer.