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Author Re: Don't trust "lifetime"
Robert Uhl

2005-08-27, 3:56 am

rem642b@Yahoo.Com (Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t) writes:
>
>
> Do they provide all the services that I already have with my current
> shell account?


You have the domain; check out the website.

> http://www.rawbw.com/~rem/NewPub/mySituation.html#isp


However, since I'm such a nice and pleasant person, I'll do it for you
just this once:

OS: NetBSD 2.02_STABLE
Accessible vie dialup, telnet & ssh
Support: available, I imagine
Shells: sh, csh, ksh, ksh93, pdksh, bash, tcsh & zsh
Editors: ed, ex, vi, nvi, bvi, vim, vile, emacs, uemacs, beav, zile, ce,
jed, jove, pico, nano, ee, hnb, ne, ve
Space: 100MB home/100MB web for the $36 lifetime price; $20/yr for each
100MB extra
Web Page: available by default
PHP: available
CGI: available
Lisp: available
Java: no available
Perl: 5.8.7, better than your ISP provides

In other words, a better deal for less money.

>
> When I was a child, my parents fell for that sucker line.


freeshell.org has been around since '87. Certainly, it's possible that
they could go out of business--but given the $20/mo you pay now, their
$36/lifetime will pay for itself in two months--every month after that
is gravy.

Your excuses for not finding work sound like your excuses for not
finding a better provider, and both sets of excuses sound an awful lot
like my own excuses for not finding a date. You've inspired me to
resolve that particular issue--perhaps someday you'll be inspired to
resolve your own.

--
Robert Uhl <http://public.xdi.org/=ruhl>
One foot is approximately the distance travelled by light in one nanosecond.
One metre is the distance travelled by light in 3.335641... nanoseconds.
Which is more scientific?
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