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Article #624191Re: Computers, anyone?
From: maus
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 15:33
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 15:33
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On 2018-06-28, Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jun 2018, Mike Spencer wrote: > > It was out of my hands, but since 2012 there's been high speed here, so > I'm not with my third ISP. When I signed up there, one of the owners > dropped by with the form, and waited while I filled it out, it was the > second oldest ISP in town. Most of those small ISPs are gone, either out > of business or bought up by a bigger fish. I actually am still with that > ISP, not for access but for my webpage and email, and if I'm stuck I can > use shell access there. > > Most of those old ISPs are gone, some just got too big, and that's where > we've lost that personal aspect. > > Michael It might cause idiotic gossip to start again, but in case anyone has been trapped in the tundra, Bill Clinton and a ghost writer have produced a book. Universally plonked, "The President is Missing", now, one at a time. -- greymaus.ireland.ie Will Rant for Food
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X-Received: by 2002:a24:730a:: with SMTP id y10-v6mr4168364itb.33.1530199990805; Thu, 28 Jun 2018 08:33:10 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: alt.folklore.computers@googlegroups.com Received: by 2002:a24:5a83:: with SMTP id v125-v6ls1221277ita.6.canary-gmail; Thu, 28 Jun 2018 08:33:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a24:908:: with SMTP id 8-v6mr4468152itm.36.1530199990080; Thu, 28 Jun 2018 08:33:10 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!p13-v6ni3731itf.0!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: maus <ma...@mail.com> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Computers, anyone? Date: 28 Jun 2018 15:33:09 GMT Lines: 25 Message-ID: <slrnpj9vtl.4rh.mausg@dmaus.org> References: <pgt4m9$lcq$1@dont-email.me> <5b329400.851025687@news.xmission.com> <pgu6g4$p08$1@dont-email.me> <5b336864.905131703@news.xmission.com> <87zhzg55bl.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> <fpibvlFfkj4U30@mid.individual.net> <87muvf61t6.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> <alpine.LNX.2.20.1806281116550.23133@thrush> X-Trace: individual.net Xl7D4U1CxcuPc4NQxlaeDQamAKzCWFPFqeRkK83EX7JBpqC6uo Cancel-Lock: sha1:H0+qyHf1IyNReOgaVkR/UL0Q6wA= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Bytes: 1954 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit