In article <199311111815.KAA05545@mail.netcom.com> tcmay@netcom.com writes:
The best things about it: flat monthly fee ($17.50), unlimited connect time, full range of services (much better than most universities have, folks tell me), and--best of all--your Netcom account won't change when you change jobs! And posting with Netcom presumably won't run the risk of angering your employer.
Unfortunately, your netcom account also won't change when you change internet vendors. What everyone should have is their own domain name; netcom offers this service (a la david@sternlight.com) for, I think, $45/month. Anyone who's interested in a better deal might like to check out internet.com who offer your own domain (and a single user id) for $75/year. You get your mail rewritten by them to your ordinary account elsewhere (eg tcmay@netcom.com) and can move the domain with you should you ever be dissatisfied with internet.com's service. Apologies, btw, for not talking about code, but I guess if Perry hasn't flamed Tim yet he's not going to flame me for posting this either :)
I'm thrilled that Netcom is expanding so rapidly.
I'd be more thrilled if they were doing what demon do and putting people's own sites on the net under SLIP for a flat rate (with demon it's 10 pounds per month - call it 15 bucks) and just ordinary phone- call costs on top. [If netcom now does this, apologies - it's been some time since I looked into the US slip culture] This *is* a cypherpunks related goal IMHO, because everyone having their own site at home rather than just using their PCs as terminals to systems like netcom means they can *much* more easily integrate pgp into their routine mailing life. (Uploading and downloading pgp mail is such a hassle for some people - like prz himself - that they just don't do it...) G