Road Runner News

[Brian Kelsay]

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" <hutchins at opus1.com>
To: "'Charles K. Lee II'" <chuckx at kc.rr.com>; <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 9:39 AM
Subject: RE: Road Runner News

>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Charles K. Lee II [mailto:chuckx at 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.)