on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 09:30:12AM -0800, Osamu Aoki (debian@aokiconsulting.com) wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:07:09AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Earthlink are a nationwide network -- you can dial in from just about > > anywhere. Pay an extra $1 for each hour you're running a dual > > connection. > > Do you have pointer to a HOWTO for dual connection? I am curios. By "dual connection" I meant dual simultaneous connections. E.g.: dialing up from my laptop while my desktop is already connected to my ISP. Rather than blocking this action, Earthlink charges $1/hr for the simultaneous connection. > My reminder for people using multiple ISP is to make sure to use SMTP > relay provided by the ISP for sending mail. Most ISPs started blocking > SMTP connection to outside last 12 month. This is true for MSN, AOL, > Earthlink, ... etc. This is a good policy to prevent some SPAM. Earthlink was allowing my mails sent from other ISPs to be relayed through the Earthlink SMTP server while I was travelling earlier this year. Naturally, once you're on the wild, you may be able to transmit mail either directly from your system's MTA, or through the smarthost for the network you're currently active on. My usual practice is to keep a system online and ssh into it for mail. > BTW, Earthlink, Netcomm, and Mindspring shares many resources under > different brands. I am not sure about what happened with the > corporate merger thing but I can use SMTP relay of Mindspring from > Eartlink dial-up connected connection ;-) This one is easier to type. They are one corporate entity. > Nice thing about Earthlink is they list dial-up access numbers on > their web page so setting up system without using proprietary > installer is easy. Agreed. There's also an 800 number locator service that can be used within the US, and possibly Canada / Mexico. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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