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|    Sean Dennis to Brian KB9BVN    |
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|    17 Feb 22 10:13:21    |
      REPLY: 1:229/426.31 3555a50e       MSGID: 1:18/200@fidonet 620e6678       CHRS: UTF-8 2       TZUTC: -0500       TID: MBSE-FIDO 1.0.8 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)       Hello Brian,              17 Feb 22 02:11, you wrote to me:               BB> That's exactly the reason. They don't have a giant pile of IP4        BB> addresses to use. They said I could just pay $10 a month for the        BB> static IP. Hey now that's a real discount.              They said this -after- telling you it was $120 as month? Spectrum won't give        you a static IP unless you have Spectrum Business (which, for what I am doing,        would be worth the cost).              ISP are real sleazeballs these days. I remember the nascent days of the        public Internet where you had neighborhood ISPs before they all got bought up.              -- Sean KS4TD              ... When my phone battery died, I was angry and needed to find an outlet.       --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707        * Origin: Outpost BBS * Johnson City, TN (1:18/200)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 18/200 90/1 105/81 106/201 120/340 123/131 129/305       SEEN-BY: 129/330 331 153/7715 226/30 227/114 229/110 200 206 312 317       SEEN-BY: 229/400 424 426 428 664 700 240/5832 266/512 282/1038 292/854       SEEN-BY: 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 460/58 633/280       SEEN-BY: 712/848       PATH: 18/200 229/426           |
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