On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:58:30 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael O'Donnell) wrote:
> I know a number of people up in the Wilton/Milford/Amherst > area who seem to be satisfied long-time customers of... > http://www.jlc.net/Services/Services.html > http://www.jlc.net/ I enthusiastically second this recommendation. Other people have other options, but I'm a captive victim of the Stewart Draper Telephone & Coal Company, from whence even a call to Nashua is a toll call. And ISDN? "Say what? Can you spell that?" JLC is is Milford, a local call. JLC is John Leslie Consulting, and it's run by John Leslie. What that has means is that when we've had a problem it's been John who answers the phone and takes care of the problem. There haven't been many problems. John is a FreeBSD enthusiast, incidentally. But who's perfect? We've been with JLC for about ten years. <personal> I would NEVER abandon him for any provider large enough to have a "Human Resources" department. Having a real person answer the support line (and the proprietor at that) says it all. </personal> MV is also good, by personal experience, and by all reports. INR.NET is good too, and also has support provided by the proprietor; almost as good as John, although my experience with them is not of as long a duration. And they use IIS in addition to Free Software. Maybe we exiles can go in with JLC to build a wireless cloud out here in the boonies one of these days. (That would really be the ticket - bypass Stewart Draper altogether.) Bill P.S. I just had a fresh look at JLC's home page. Above the "Powered by Apache", and PROMINENT, are o _Warning_ to users of Microsoft Outlook Express o _Warning_ to users of Microsoft Windows Operating Systmes (I didn't call them "operating systems", he did... Hi, John! :) ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
