RE: List turnaround speed

I just got DSL at home (BellSouth).  It's interesting that it became
available within about 2 weeks of the time that cable access became
available (Charter Communications).  Funny what a little competition will
do.

BTW, I'm very pleased with my connection - consistently reports 1,472,000
inbound, 256k outbound.  I'm happy. :)

Dave Shaw
Spartan International, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:clewis@iquest.net]

Interesting Jim...

You might have seen my T-1 query last week (I'm not sure we need a full T-1)
and DSL
would be an option, except...

I am hearing from some BIG providers that they can take an order but be
prepared to
wait 3-4 MONTHS because AMERITECH (we are in Indiana and are CURSED with
Ameritech
as are Illinois, Michigan and Ohio...) cannot cooperate and get lines in in
any time
under 3-4 months... UNREAL...

Chuck

Jim Langston wrote:

> In other words, you're going to have your own POP3 and SMTP servers
> instead of relying on your ISP's servers.
>
> Good news, David :)
>
> We here use DSL also and have our own POP3/SMTP server and it works
> fine, and at only 256k async too.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Langston
>
> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 08:23:43 -0600 (CST)
> From: David Gibbs <david@midrange.com>
> Subject: Re: List turnaround speed
>
> > David, DSL is good news!  However, I have to wonder, you'll still have
an ISP
> > to deal with, won't you?  How, then, does DSL allow you to "go direct"?
>
> Currently, mail sent to MIDRANGE.COM goes to my ISP to be queued up.
> Every 5 minutes or so, I connect to my ISP to download the mail via
> UUCP, process it, and queue it up to be sent back to the ISP.  When
> I send it back to the ISP, they do the actual sending of the messages
> out to the internet.
>
> When I have DSL, the mail will be sent directly to midrange.com and
> will be sent out directly from my system to your mail servers.  The
> ISP will no longer be in the mix.
>
> > Once the listservers are on DSL, will you also have more control of the
> > sequence of messages arriving at subscribers' inboxes?  In other words,
will I
> > no longer receive replies to a message that arrives later than the reply
> > itself?
>
> I think so.
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