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In article <35fd8f80.1018798@news.wwa.com>, anaconda@STOPSPAM.com (Bob
Kwiatkowski) wrote:

>That said...I believe when someone was giving me shit a couple
>weeks ago (when we had the great SNAFU), I mentioned that
>I felt it was the natural result of an acquisition. Verio will
>eventually become an AOL type provider, through acquistion.
>
>Why buy WWA? They are buying a customer base and hope
>that customer laziness will pervade (similar reason MCI/Sprint/ATT 
>used to pay people big bucks to switch over). Once a customer
>always a customer until something really brings them to the edge, 
>in the long run it is a winner.

I have no idea if anyone in Verio management pays any attention to this
but if they do, let me just say I have no interest in using a service
designed for those that think the Web and the Internet are the same thing.
What I need is Internet access coupled with storage and computing
resoruces. That's access via PPP, storage for mail and other files that
need to be accessible continuously, and computing resources meaning a
shell account. I am frequently in places where my only available way to
WWA is telnet. With a shell account, I can read my mail on the server when
I can't or don't want to POP retrieve it. I am not interested in a content
provider - there's plenty of that out there (I view AOL as a content
provider first and an access provider second). I am not interested in
access only like Earthlink and Worldnet - without shell access, they do
not meet my needs.

The day Verio decides that being another AOL or Earthlink is the way to go
is the day I'm gone and any investment they made in buying me as a
customer will be lost.

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