17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Thomas Grant Edwards says:
On Mon, 6 Feb 1995, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Remember, by the way, that PPP is far cheaper per customer than shell accounts, even though moronic providers right now don't make it look that way.
PPP/SLIP is currently not cheaper per customer - if you figure in the time your help desk staff put in over the first couple of weeks of a new customer coming on line.
Thats because the providers never package things up cleanly. If they sent a client on a disk, a la AOL, and they set things up to autoconfigure, they'd never need to speak to the clients. Perry