BBSs & PPP

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Wed Nov 6 20:49:01 2002

Tw plugs to follow-up on John's comments...

On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, John Lawson wrote:

> I am using VanDayke's CRT on a Thinkpad, and it has never failed me,
> from living in India to living in the California Sierras, and with my
> cellphone when on the road.

VanDyke makes the best telnet clients I have ever used. I now exclusively
used SecureCRT (since my server was hacked) and also SecureFX, which is
their secure FTP client. SecureFX is the security version of AbsoluteFTP.
Both feature drag & drop interfaces and are as every bit as good and clean
as CRT and SecureCRT.

> One thing, though, about Panix you might want to bear in mind. When you
> call them, something known as a 'human being' will answer the phone right
> away, and that person will not only know what you're talking about, you
> will be connected to another one of those 'human' devices, (I have never
> been on hold with them, BTW) and in my few tech calls, the person helping
> me knew precisely what they were talking about and gave me the complete,
> correct info the first time.

An ISP in northern California that I gave some seed capital to way back in
1994 when they were small but growing has similar service. Humans always
answer the phone, and they are still small enough to still like their
customers, but big enough to be a full service ISP with good service.
They also have nationwide dialups.

PsyberWare
http://www.psyber.com

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