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Linux-friendly ISPs?



On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:57:25PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> The World (Located in Collidge Corner with national dialup
> service:http://www.theworld.com) is a public access Unix system, and are
> the oldest ISP in the country. They charge $9.89/Mo for their cheapest
> service. I've found that their support people tend to be somewhat
> knowledgable in comparison to ISPs like Comcast who hire some type of
> non-human primate. I personally maintain both an account at TheWorld as
> well as Comcast. 
> I've never had any trouble with Linux on Comcast.

On the other hand, Barry (the owner) is on a quest to save the world
from spam, and doesn't care what legitimate mail is lost along the way.

-dsr-

-- 
Network engineer / pre-sales engineer available in the Boston area.
http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr




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