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Lucas Holt writes:

>  If you are ever down, they won't help you because you don't run
>  windows.  You could lie to them of course.  :)

	Few ISPs will pay their people to support anything but Windows
and Mac.
	_However_ ... if you can reasonably cast the problem as
something OS-independant they're still on the hook.


				Robert Huff