Subj : Re: Echolink and Metronet To : All From : Nigel Reed Date : Tue Feb 22 2022 04:05 pm On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 10:13:21 -0500 "Sean Dennis" wrote: > Hello Brian, > > 17 Feb 22 02:11, you wrote to me: > > BB> That's exactly the reason. They don't have a giant pile of IP4 > BB> addresses to use. They said I could just pay $10 a month for the > BB> static IP. Hey now that's a real discount. > > They said this -after- telling you it was $120 as month? Spectrum > won't give you a static IP unless you have Spectrum Business (which, > for what I am doing, would be worth the cost). > > ISP are real sleazeballs these days. I remember the nascent days of > the public Internet where you had neighborhood ISPs before they all > got bought up. back in England, Demon Internet would provide every user with a static IP with their 10 quid a month internet service. You were expected to run an smtp server and they would "store and forward" you emails. They had a software package to do all that and it was actually pretty neat, all integrated. -- End Of The Line BBS - Plano, TX telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23 --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux * Origin: End Of The Line BBS - endofthelinebbs.com (1:124/5016) .