Sympatico slow

[Walter Dnes]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 04:05:47PM -0400, Peter L. Peres wrote
> 
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> >of the router.  That should take care of most of it.  I suggest NOT
> >using your sympatico email address to sign up with another ISP of
> >course.
> 
> Why not ? I thought the red carpets of opportunity are redder for punters 
> who ride the 'wrong horse'. Or are they ?

  You seem to be an optimist who has never experienced Murphy's Law in
action.  Here's a scenario...

  - You are joe_blow-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
  - You decide to switch to some other ISP, bad.example.com, where your
    address will be joe_blow-j30rFtiH+aqnzT0iUeSTvQ at public.gmane.org
  - Assume that there is a problem of some sort in your setup after you
    cancel sympatico
  - Your new ISP will send email with instructions to... where... ???

  If you're half-decently serious about connectivity, get a totally
separate low-cost backup dialup account.  And since you're changing
email addresses anyway, now is the time to register a personal domain,
even if it's only a cheap re-direction service.

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