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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.voicenet.com!news2.noc.netcom.net!noc.netcom.net!netcom.net.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!illuin.demon.co.uk!illuin.demon.co.uk!richard From: richard@illuin.demon.co.uk (Richard Letts) Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages Followup-To: poster Date: 1 Jul 1996 18:27:38 GMT Organization: A Good Idea(tm) Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4r95aq$h89@illuin.demon.co.uk> References: <31D4AA3A.BC0@www.play-hookey.com> <836073421snz@dsl.co.uk> <4r4oup$o76@newsgate.duke.edu> <836115689snz@microvst.demon.co.uk> <4r71bs$bpt@newsgate.duke.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: illuin.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: illuin.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Charles Reese (reese@chem.duke.edu) wrote: ) I also connect via a dial up account, it is to Duke University but it ) shouldn't make much difference who provides your ISP service. If you ) have a shell account on your ISP machine (ie you can login directly or ARGH!!!! look, demon don't provide a shell account: we dial up, we enter the username and password at the prompt, followed by either PPP or SLIP there is no shell account provided. they don't (now) use unix machines to provide PPP, they use real access routers (Ascend Max's) ) Using this approach has nothing to do with phone charges as I don't ) pay them (its a local call in US) and Duke doesn't pay them cause they ) pay for their connection at a flat rate. again, this may be true in the USA, but in australia there are generally usage charges. follow-ups set to poster as this isn't probably of interest to anyone who reads it. RjL +----------------------------+ | richard@illuin.demon.co.uk | Aut viam inveniam aut faciam +----------------------------+