From owner-freebsd-isp Mon May 19 07:39:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA24795 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 19 May 1997 07:39:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.denverweb.net (root@usr1-dialup51.Denver.mci.net [204.189.201.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA24781 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 07:39:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion (blaine@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.denverweb.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA09171 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 08:59:57 -0600 Message-ID: <33806AEB.557D9B86@denverweb.net> Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 08:59:55 -0600 From: Blaine Minazzi Organization: What, me organized? X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: isp@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: radius, usr total control and freebsd References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Steve wrote: > > My problem with the box was not the box - it was USR policies. You buy a > box with X2. You get a box without control software and without X2. You > have to fill in an mail or fax a form and your invoice - assuming you can > push your vendor into cutting an invoice timely, then you have to dig thru > a maze of web pages to find a form to set up a web account, you then wait > days for an approval so that you can wade thru the web pages again, to put > in your information, to get the information you then need to wade thru > some more web pages, to generate a key to enable X2 on the box. Then you > can fish around for the control software and download that. > > So the problem is not the box - its the policy. The funny thing is, that this process actually make sense to someone at USR... Someone had to actually think this up and implement it. To them, it is most likey a "simple" process, and they can not comprehend why you are having a problem with it. Which proves once again, that the difference between genius and stupidity is, genius has it's limits. Blaine