From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 12 04:33:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA00742 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 04:33:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA00719; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 04:32:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA29415; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:16:30 GMT Message-Id: <199711121216.MAA29415@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommendation for a UK based ISP In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:17:25 GMT." <19971112101725.23103@iii.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:16:29 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Demon systems (www.demon.net) provide all this for #10+VAT (#11.75) per month. They go trough bad patches with their news servers, but their availability is excelent. They don't run or support FreeBSD, but I've used FreeBSD to connect to them since 1991 (when it was 386BSD). > Hi, > > Can anyone recommend (or alternatively, if you're reading this in -isp, > are you) a good ISP in the UK? I'm not looking for much, just an ISP who > > - Gives me a subdomain of their own domain, and delivers mail to it using > SMTP (so I'm not paying them every time I want to set up a new mailbox) > > - Doesn't do anything that would prevent me running INN or C News locally, > so I can read groups at my own pace and expiry times. > > - Offers 3 or 4 MB of web space for a reasonable price, lets me telnet and > ftp to this web space, and has up to date copies of Perl available > (anything after 5.00401). Oh, and has no silly restrictions like "You > will use our mail script, our web hit counter script (ugh) and that's > all"). > > Bonus points if they run FreeBSD, obviously. Any pointers gratefully > received. > > To keep clutter down on the mailing lists I've set the reply-to to chat. > > N > -- > --+==[ Nik Clayton is Just Another Perl Hacker at Interactive Investor ]==+-- > It is easier to seek forgiveness than permission -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....