On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote:
Certianly the point central to your arguement is that with the right abuse-desk to customer ratio AND the right customer base, things could be kept clean for smtp/web/ftp/blah 'hosting'.
I'll take "the right customer base" for $50 please Alex.
which is NOT the current dsl/cable-modem user, obviously?
This is most certainly the case... I look forward to seeing your list of providers and prices :)
Rick Adams and Mike O'Dell had an idea in 1987. How is this any different?
mumble, mumble giant telephone company mumble mumble... In all seriousness, I'm not sure this is any different. Their idea, if I got it right, was 'ip everywhere'. Perhaps providing smaller scale 'good' colo with strong abuse/support is possible, just don't get greedy and get gigantic. Paul, does your list include those providers that provide the hardware upfront also? or is part of your deal that the equipment comes from the customer so they are more willing to behave?