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Re: Sick of Demon...advice wanted on ISP's

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From: Herodotus
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 00:00
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On Tue, 23 Jan 1996 22:00:22 GMT, nigel@nelgin.dircon.co.uk (Nigel Reed)
wrote:

>nigel@openvms.demon.co.uk (Nigel Barker) wrote:

>>Also I always thought that you needed static addresses to do SMTP.
>
>That is correct - as I've said elsewhere in this and other threads -
>you can have EITHER dynamic ip/POP3 or static ip/SMTP with Dircon - it
>makes no difference either way. I even started with a POP3 account and
>they changed it to an SMTP account - that's flexability for you!
>
>Regards
>nigel
>
But what about POP3/static IP. A certain Internet Discovery Ltd has sent me
information about themselves, and they offer this. It means that you get
the advantages of POP3 mail whilst being able to have multiple users and
being run server software when u are connected. The latter is a small
point, but quite helpful and gives a lot of flexibility.
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From: lucian@w-title.demon.co.uk (Herodotus)
Subject: Re: Sick of Demon...advice wanted on ISP's
Date: 1996/01/27
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