Re: mail clients
On Sat, 22 May 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Stephen, I don't know who you are, but let me tell you who *I* am. I
> joined Netcom in the early 90s. 91 or so. Netcom, at the time, was *only*
> shell accounts. I learned shells, started with nn and joe and pine and
> filter. For over 4 years I ran my BBS across 3 different OSs, 8 months of
> that while I was a truck driver on the road.
> national ISP. I work day to day on Solaris boxes.
>
> Know what? Learning isn't my problem. I am pissed at the way ISPs are
> going because I can't get just a direct pipe to the 'net. I run all my own
> services. Even with all that... I don't want to hobbble together something
> functional for mail.
Are you in the SF Bay area? (That Netcom comment led me to think so).
idiom.com will sell you a clean pipe and a block of IP addresses. They
were one of the few companies I found in the area that would do that for a
dialup 24x7 account back before I got DSL.
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