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

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From: Nigel Barker
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 00:00

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On Mon, 22 Jan 1996 10:26:25 GMT, nicks@wipak.demon.co.uk (Nick
Sellors) wrote:

>On Sat, 20 Jan 1996 23:46:44 +0000, Steve Smith
><steves@a4000.demon.co.uk> commented:
>
>>In Article <4drn05$7pt@newsgate.dircon.co.uk> Nigel Reed writes:
>>>Only ever had one or two, at the most, problems getting onto News...a
>>>second retry always worked.
>>
>>I'm interested ... do they provide a full news feed?
>
>No. Only Demon do.
>
>>
>>>Also, using POP3, you can get your mail anytime, anywhere - or choose
>>>SMTP if you would rather.
>>
>>I'm even more interested.  If you take up the SMTP option, do you
>>get a domain to yourself (like with Demon)?
>
>No, and they use dynamic IP addresses which is worse.

I wouldn't be too sure about that. The header of the posting from the
gentleman at dircon:-

From: nigel@nelgin.dircon.co.uk (Nigel Reed)
Reply-To: nigel@nelgin.dircon.co.uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: nelgin.dircon.co.uk

Also I always thought that you needed static addresses to do SMTP.

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Nigel Barker
nigel@openvms.demon.co.uk

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From: nigel@openvms.demon.co.uk (Nigel Barker)
Subject: Re: Sick of Demon...advice wanted on ISP's
Date: 1996/01/22
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