Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: > > What about making everyone their own provider? The efforts in this > direction intiated by Eben Moglen that lead to the FreedomBox and other > projects seem to go in the right direction. It doesn't seem to me less > realistic than requiring cooperation from providers. > I was my own provider for many years, and that was easy enough. I got a static IP address from my ISP for $10/month and ran sendmail as my MTA. I used mutt am MUA.
But when I switched to Verizon as ISP in order to get FiOS, they wanted $150/month for a static IP address and an additional fee (I forget what it was) to be allowed to run sendmail as a server. Verizon is a great ISP 8-( They discontinued Usenet, so I have to pay a fee to another provider to use Usenet. They did not reduce their fees when the reduced the level of service. Greed and Profit before Service: it is the American way. 8-( -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 10:05:01 up 19:11, 4 users, load average: 4.93, 4.98, 5.11 _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
