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Re: ISP: A Public Service (Re: now@freenet.toronto.on.ca)

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From: Richard Sexton
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 00:00
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In article <E51y3r.AoI.0.bloor@torfree.net>,
Bob Allisat <ab330@torfree.net> wrote:
>Richard Sexton (richard@interlog.com) wrote:
>: Hell, I don't care if there are assholes all over the net, 
>: and I even give free accounts to a few, but at the point
>: where it costs me money (ie, time, LOTS of time) to give
>: away this free account, they're history.
>:
>: Am I being unresonable ?
>
> Perhaps not. And it is not
> reasonable to expect un-
> interupted Internet services
> just like the way the tele-
> phone works? Me thinks not.

Um, the telephone doesnt work all the time. If everybody
were to pick up heir telephone reciever and they all went off hook
simultanesoulsy, the phone network would collapse.

Nonetheless, if you find a reliable ISP, let me know.

Personally I think it's an oxymoron, and basically, we
all settle for the compromise we're happiest with.


-- 
Richard Sexton
richard@alter.nic            We are all the Alter.NIC
richard@vrx.net               http://www.alternic.net
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From: richard@interlog.com (Richard Sexton)
Subject: Re: ISP: A Public Service (Re: now@freenet.toronto.on.ca)
Date: 1997/02/03
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