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

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From: Nick Sellors
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 00:00
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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.

N.

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From: nicks@wipak.demon.co.uk (Nick Sellors)
Subject: Re: Sick of Demon...advice wanted on ISP's
Date: 1996/01/22
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