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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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