Sorry - meant to send this to the list, but sent it personally instead.
My apologies to Chris, who will now get two copies...
You use what you have access to. Some of us don't have multipule
choice
regarding ISP's or cable TV
for that matter. It took 7 years to get cable TV up here in the
mountains
yet we have 5 ISP's to choose
from. Go figure. And AOL is the largest ISP corporation in the word.
That
hardly rates as a wannabe.
The reason I class AOL as wannabees is that they do not offer 'proper'
access like the other providers do. By that I mean (for example)
everything requires their own software - you don't have the access
freedom of the majority of other ISPs.
For the record, of all the ISPs I've tried, the best (in my opinion)
was
Demon Internet Ltd in the UK (http://www.demon.net). For less than 20
bucks a month I got a static IP address, my own host name with
unlimited
e-mail addresses (I had total control of EVERYTHING to the left of the
'at' sign - great for running my own mailing lists!), 25mb web space,
no
mailbox size limits, FULL news coverage (none of the message size
restrictions of BellSouth), etc.
I could even host my web pages on my own home computer if I wished (I
did this for a while). That gave me (effectively) unlimited storage.
That, to me, is a REAL ISP. The rest come a very poor second.
I just wish I could get such service here at a sensible price...
Regards,
Ozz.
