Re: Good local ISP?

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From: Ian Crew (icrew@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2001 - 09:19:55 PDT

>I live in San Francisco and watched my ISP die a slow death over 2
>years (Sirius->Firstworld->?).

To complete that line:
Sirius->Firstworld->Mindspring->Earthlink....

>Have you heard anything about Pac Bell for POP access? (I happen to
>be looking for one, too.)

I actually have a PacBell account thanks to my DSL line.

If you're referring to POP in the "Point of Presence" (i.e. dialup
phone number) access, they're pretty good--they've got local numbers
throughout most of California.

If you're referring to POP in the "Post Office Protocol" (i.e. e-mail
boxes) sense, they are REALLY awful. Though I've NEVER given anyone
my PacBell address, my mailbox there gets flooded with tons of spam.
 From what I've been able to figure out (through talking to other
PacBell account holders), they're selling their addresses to
spammers--newly created accounts often start getting spam in less
than an hour, which is much too quick for a random search to find
them.

Ian 

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