[Dclug] Need new ISP

[William Shotts]

On 11/01/2011 10:35 AM, Alan McConnell wrote:
> Assembled Wisdom!
>
> I wrote in the Subject "ISP", but I actually need something
> less.  I need a company that I can use as a "smart host", or
> relay host, and that will accept and store E-mail for me
> which I can then retrieve using e.g. fetchmail.  A shell
> account and a minimal web presence would be nice.
>
> I need a new "intermediary company" like this because
> PatriotNet, once a really fine substantial ISP, has of late
> sunk way below the boundary of what is acceptable.  They
> pay no attention to keeping things up to date; I believe
> that only one person "takes care" of things there.
> PatriotNet is owned by Leros Technologies.  I have
> written a _snail-mail_ to their CEO, a Mr Xenos, with
> a cc to their CTO, a Mr Ahmed, and received no reply.
> Phone calls to them work about the way phone calls to
> Verizon work; can I say anything more damning?
>
> [  Are there any members here who are still using PatriotNet,
> or has everyone else already bailed out? ]
>
> Many thanks in advance for anticipated help/suggestions!
>
> Alan
>

I have been very pleased with panix.com out of NYC, though I use their 
mail via IMAP clients (Thunderbird, Evolution, etc.) rather than 
fetchmail.  See: http://lcorg.blogspot.com/2010/01/in-praise-of-panix.html


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