I live in the Lake Mille Lacs area. My ISP is PineNet.com in Pine City, MN. He's a great rural ISP but his overhead is tremendous compared to the Twin Cities. So, basically, he's a one man operation with more to do than is possible just getting and keeping people connected and billed. He has phone lines from the twin ports (Duluth) to the twin cities. Speed is not possible. No way he can offer competitive web hosting, too. Other ISPs get pretty bad pretty fast. East Central Electric (a rural power coop) is horrible. A vast part of Minnesota needs serious Web Hosting, with very simple consulting help. You would not believe the backlog of rural need for web presence. I looked at your home page but found little information. The range of business activities here is huge; from goat cheese to tourism. A vast area of Minnesota needs your services and expertise. Rick Engebretson Isle, MN. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 6/13/01, 11:55:38 AM, Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> wrote regarding Re [TCLUG] QwestM$N Deal at 13.sdm: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Florin Iucha wrote: > > I think you would do a big service to your sales department if you would > > kick their a** a little. You might want to ask Bob for help though :) > > > > I mean - if they would spend half a day updating that web page of theirs, you > > would get more business. I have look a couple times in the past to that > > page and I have been put off by the price (which is wrong, as you told me), > > by lack of information (dns, ip) and stupidity (we support windows and mac). > Yeah, we are actually already in the process of redesigning our entire web > site to make it.. well, usable, and accurate. > But, I've forwarded your complaints on to the proper person anyways. :) > > If they can't be bothered, then put a page on www.mn-linux.org with Linux > > friendly companies in TwinCities and put yourselves in the first row (as you > > rightfully deserve) and add that info somewhere... > This is actually a good idea anyways.. I'm sure we're not the only > linux-friendly ISP in the area, and it'd be a good resource for anyone > looking for Linux help locally. > -- > Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 > http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list