From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Aug 16 10:36:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA02311 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:36:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsd.intrastar.net (BSD.INTRASTAR.NET [206.136.25.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA02289 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:35:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jsuter@localhost) by bsd.intrastar.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA03088; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 12:28:22 -0500 Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 12:28:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Jacob Suter To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Telco/NAPs Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've meen noticing that quite a few people from BSDNET #freebsd, and the whole ISP world in general seem to love the LD Telcos that have decided to become Network Access Providers. I'm beginning to wonder if the rays from the 21" monitors are starting to get to ya'll... Putting speed aside (I would be really concerned if I was in the OC-3 market, but I seriously doubt most of us here are), the telcos want to be our competition for the most part.... Would you buy your upstream connection from your existing competitior? Hell no! Am I missing something here? Are the telcos offering free service or something for ya'll? I'm gonna be disgruntled when/if we all get taken out of business by the telcos that you all helped pay for... JS