On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 10:20:44 -0400, Jason Crawford proclaimed... > Just because I have comcast doesn't make me clueless. Trust me, I'd go > with another provider, but they are the ONLY cable internet provider > in the baltimore area, and the price to bandwidth ratio is better than > dsl, as the fastest dst I can get is under 1mbps.
Same here in Chicago; it's fast and fairly cheap. Do I trust them wtih my mail? hell no. I don't think there is any clueful userbase out there on large-provider networks. > So just because I'm too poor to get a colocated server, if I want to > run my own mail server, I'm just shit out of luck? That seems > unacceptable to me. The ability to run an email server shouldn't be in > direct relation to how much money I make, which I thought was part of > the point to OpenBSD, free. Any residential ISP will have customers > that have no clue, because most people just don't need (or feel they > don't need) to know much at all about computers, but I shouldn't have > to suffer because of their ignorance (and yours). I just keep mine elsewhere; sure, it costs more a month, but it's worth it. - Eric
