On Wed, 26 Jun 1996, Primacy wrote: > >> > Base mud account - $100/month > >> > Addtl shell accounts - $10/month/account > >> > Personal hostname setup - $30 one time fee (includes 1st month) > >> > Hostname monthly charge - $5/month > > Here's the info for my Internet service provider. > > Base account charge - $14.95/month (unlimited access) > Personal hostname setup - $50 one time fee > Hostname yearly charge - $50 year Your "personal hostname setup" is WAYYY too expensive. Remember, a hostname costs zip. All it requires is an entry in the DNS records. However, a domain name free is charged by the InterNIC for a domain, which is $50/year for two years, no "one time fee." Tell your ISP to screw it yourself and just do it yourself. Just get someone on SprintLink to register the IP address in DNS for you, it'll automagically go to the whole world. You're getting ripped off, here. ;p Here's mine: $19.95/mo for unlimited access $10.00 one-time-fee for hostname $50.00/yr for two years for domain name registration $10.00 setup fee for a domain name Of course, getting a halfway-decent connection costs more... that's where getting two or three modems and then balancing the load between them is useful. Of course, my ISP makes you pay through the nose if you're on 24-hours a day, but still... ------------------------------------------------------------------ Barid Bel Medar icarus@berkshire.net Knights of the Cosmos Shayol Ghul Resort and Health Spa ------------------------------------------------------------------ "I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top." - English Professor, Ohio University ------------------------------------------------------------------
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