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From: Beartooth
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 20:36

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	Having recently doscovered grc.com, I tried it out
on accounts I have at earthlink and at radix. To no one's
surprise, I'm sure, earthlink came up looking like a hoop --
if not a swiss cheese.

	Radix otoh got the highest ratings the site could
offer. Way to go, radix!

	I have no way of trying others, but among us maybe
we could work up a table of ratings, and put it up
somewhere. Any ISP that didn't like its rating could of
course get onto these groups and assert an upgrade -- which
someone would surely check out promptly. <grin>

	For those even more innocent than I was, one caveat:
I am told that, even with a maximum-security provider, you
still want to take certain precautions with your own
machine, especially if it runs muckeyslop. (The precautions
are over my head ; I have a printout of what was recommended
to me, but there are others here who can explain the whole
topic a lot better than I can.)

--
RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger, PhD
karhumhammas (at) lserv.com (new)
Better to be a gamma geek with linux
than an alpha nerd chained to muckeyslop.

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From: karhunhammas@lserv.com (Beartooth)
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