CHARLES ANGELICH wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

WC>> Cheap ADSL has arrived here and soon as I slap the hard
WC>> drive in this sucker I'm going DSL. 

RJT> Hope you're happy with msn as an ISP... :-0 

CA> You've lost me. How does MSN become a part of ADSL in Florida?

That's who verizon is using as a part of that package they're offering --
see verizon.com...

CA> And ... why would having Microsoft as an ISP be a 'bad thing'?  

Because of the way they do things -- their inclination to "bend"
standards to directions that make problems for those who are running non-m$
operating systems,  for example.

One that I just bumped into yesterday was emails containing only HTML code,
 for one example.  Them and AOL are probably most responsible for that...

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