[Cialug] Des Moines Area ISPs

Jon Clemons cialug@cialug.org
Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:34:19 -0500


No, but you could cash them in and buy me lunch:)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave J. Hala Jr." <dave@58ghz.net>
To: "Cialug" <cialug@cialug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Des Moines Area ISPs


> Jon, I have five or six of those big bags of cans. I could drive by and
> throw them at your building if you'd like...
>
>
> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 12:52, Jon Clemons wrote:
>> I use Marshallnet because the poor owner
>> has a cardboard box home under the bridge
>> because Qwest charges too much for services:)
>>  To make matters worse the management at
>> InternetSolver quit throwing their empty pop cans
>> in the dumpster so his weekly salary was cut in half:)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Theron Conrey" <theron@conrey.org>
>> To: <cialug@cialug.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 12:18 PM
>> Subject: [Cialug] Des Moines Area ISPs
>>
>>
>> > Fellow Lugites:
>> >
>> > I, like many of you, run servers out of my home.   I have a mail and 
>> > web
>> > server, and I guess my mythtv qualifies as a server, as I remotely can
>> > schedule recordings via apache, so reading slashdot's link today:
>> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/12/ifpi_drafts_code_of_conduct/
>> > rattled me in my socks.
>> >
>> > After comcast's leaving a bad taste in my mouth in NJ i swore never to
>> > be bogged down by such a repressive eula (You saw him repressing me
>> > didn't ya?!?!?) and found Freese-Notis here in Des Moines.  Bridged  IP
>> > from Quest, static IP, an agreement that lets me do what I want with my
>> > service, blah blah, blah ISP Nirvana.........
>> >
>> > So this question is posed:  What ISP do you use and why?
>> >
>> > -Theron
>> >
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