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In article <50pe1m$nl4@news2.his.com>, Charles Gillen <gillen@his.com> wrote:
>In article <50o6k3$lrc@news2.cais.com>, ericy@cais.cais.com (Eric 
>Youngdale) wrote:
>
>>        I am still in the process of configuring a few things on my
>>machine - I only have the newsreader partially configured so I cannot
>>yet post from my own machine yet.  They provide a mail server and a
>>news server, btw.
>
>Are personal home pages possible on JIC?

	At this point I don't know whether they provide this service.

	Personally I am running a Linux box, and it already has a httpd
running on it.  All I need to do is to get them to add my machine to their
DNS tables, and I can have my personal home page on my machine at home. 
Still waiting on that one - I think I need to call again.

>Here in Reston (outdoor TV antennas verboten) we also are the captive 
>audience of Jones Cable.  Actually, I would be rather leery of subscribing 
>to a net provider run by neophytes... perhaps Paul should branch out and 
>supply such TV cable firms with a Net "front end" that really works.

	The impression that I have gotten is that the Internet people and
the cable TV people are in two seperate divisions of the company.  They
know each other's phone numbers, and they are smart enough to refer people
to the other side if questions come up they cannot answer, but it was
quite clear that I was dealing with two distinct entities.  This
is why when they did the install, they brought out 2 people.  One was
the guy who could pull more cable, install a new jack, etc.  The other
one was the guy who could install the ethercard and set it up.

	The networking guy seemed to be at least somewhat knowledgable.
Since I had a linux box, he had no idea how to configure it at all, so I
had to do this part, but I just kept asking him questions about various
parameters I needed, and he always had the correct answers available
without having to call back to the office or anything.

	The mail server is a SCO box, so I can say for a fact that they
aren't all DOS weenies.

	My impression is that Jones is taking it kind of slow as they ramp
up the service.  They have a learning curve too, and they need to train
people to install the thing for people as they get hooked up.  I suspect
that the lessons that they learn in Alexandria will be used in other
cities.

-Eric

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