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   On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 10:13:21 -0500   
   "Sean Dennis"  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   back in England, Demon Internet would provide every user with a static   
   IP with their 10 quid a month internet service. You were expected to run   
   an smtp server and they would "store and forward" you emails. They had a   
   software package to do all that and it was actually pretty neat, all   
   integrated.   
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