Probably Email and maybe DNS will be provided. I would rather have the IPs and provide my own email server and web server. Let them do DNS. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Hutchins" To: "'Charles K. Lee II'" ; Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 9:39 AM Subject: RE: Road Runner News > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Charles K. Lee II [mailto:chuckx@kc.rr.com] > > > Obviously, the network and cable lines and such is all > > maintained by us, but you get to choose which ISP you are > > getting service from. > > So what "S" will these "P"s actually provide? Will my neighbor on Earthlink > see a different traceroute to www.novell.com than I do on roadrunner? Or > will they actually only do billing, with the service and hardware still > provided by TWC? > > (I think this whole "ISP Choice" issue is bogus. Most of the small ISP's > got their start charging for access to content created and provided for > "free" by hobby networks like FIDOnet. It was always bogus that you had to > dial into a Raytown office and be routed back to SWB's downtown hub instead > of dialing in to the neighborhood SWB switch and hopping right on the > backbone. Now the network's been cleaned up, and the sidewalk hustlers are > being squeezed out, and I couldn't be more pleased.)