From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 29 09:42:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA11944 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:42:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA11939 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:42:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA12168; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 10:23:30 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199701291723.KAA12168@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: RFC 1323 default settings (was Re: progress report on connection problems) To: spork@super-g.com (spork) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 10:23:30 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, shovey@buffnet.net, robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "spork" at Jan 29, 97 10:27:22 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Please put a stop to these "free upgrade" rumors... I've called and > begged and pleaded with these people. Without a support contract they > will not talk to you about the problem, and without the software-upgrade > contract they will not give any software away... In a nutshell, they are > a pain in the ass to deal with. I perpetuated the rumor, but I didn't start it. Consider it quashed, at least from me. Isn't this considered a bugfix, not an "upgrade"? In any case, it seems that it's not a very good idea to calculate the price of Annex hardware without including the cost of a "software upgrade contract" in the total when comparing them to their competition. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.