Advice on how to straighten out a crappy ISP

[Brad Knowles]

At 9:50 PM -0400 2003/06/17, Bill Moran wrote:

>  Does anyone have any suggestion on how I can get them to fix their
>  worthless shit?  I've tried being nice.  I've tried being an asshole.
>  I have nothing to threaten with, as there are no other high-speed
>  providers in this area.

	Don't bother.  Find someone else that has a secure SMTP server 
(with a static IP address) that they will let you use and which 
allows SMTPAUTH and/or TLSSMTP, and then use them to relay all your 
mail.  Unfortunately, this may cost more money than buying a static 
IP address for yourself.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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