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Article #78Re: Why don't ISPs offer shell anymore?
From: Rick Ellis
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 00:00
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In article <32DA734A.167EB0E7@net.com>, J. Prakash <prakash@net.com> wrote: >Rick Ellis wrote: > >> Well, we got into this by talking about why many ISPs don't offer shell >> access. I can tell you that while we do provide shell logins here almost >> nobody uses them. Don't know why but that's how it has been going >> lately. > >All the more reason to offer shell accounts at lower rates! :) Huh? Shell accounts take more resources and have a larger security risk. One person doing an ftp on a dial-up PPP doesn't have much impact. One person doing an ftp on a shell login can use a large portion of your Internet bandwidth.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,66ca66afeebaf7d5 X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: fdb40,55985d278fa5ab0b X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb40,public X-Google-Thread: faff9,3b2229014b3f5b24 X-Google-Attributes: gidfaff9,public X-Google-Thread: f4f5d,66ca66afeebaf7d5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4f5d,public X-Google-Thread: 107d03,55985d278fa5ab0b X-Google-Attributes: gid107d03,public From: ellis@ftel.net (Rick Ellis) Subject: Re: Why don't ISPs offer shell anymore? Date: 1997/01/13 Message-ID: <5bee2m$ahu$1@philippi.alphalink.com> X-Deja-AN: 209872173 references: <5akrer$1e7$1@sun1.sure.net> <frantic-ya02408000R1201970106500001@news.primenet.com> <5bbssq$2dq$1@philippi.alphalink.com> <32DA734A.167EB0E7@net.com> organization: Franklin interNet, Westlake Village, CA [http://www.ftel.net] newsgroups: la.wanted,la.general,ca.general,alt.internet.access.wanted,linux.admin.isp