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Edwin Groothuis

@comex @rysiek We need to go back to the time that ISPs were more than a "I take your money, here is your IP address" and provided email services, local mirrors, user homepages, game servers etc etc etc.

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Raymond Neilson

@mavetju @comex @rysiek Nononononono, that lashed a generation to their ISP because they couldn't change their email address or move their website

Edwin Groothuis

@delta_vee @comex @rysiek Unlike currently where they can't move from Twitter, Facebook, Gmail as it's all monocultural?

At least with my local ISP I can talk to somebody when there is a problem I can't solve for my friends.

Raymond Neilson

@mavetju @comex @rysiek I've swapped ISPs (and cities) a lot more than any of those.

I mean, I'm the kind of masochist who still runs their own email server (and DNS), so I'm well acquainted with the tech side.

I still have no good answer when my mother asks how best to move off her ISP's email because she wants to switch ISPs

Raymond Neilson

@mavetju @comex @rysiek Side note: none of the ISPs in question are small enough that anyone can even get to an L2 tech on the first call. They're utterly horrid to deal with, and I'll debug my own AWS setup with tcpdump before I ever call them

Kévin ⏚

@mavetju @comex @rysiek welcome to modern day France. All the providers have email and some still have personal site hosting. Although minitel was up until 2011, so give it ten years before all that gets shuttered

Sascha Wenninger

@mavetju @comex @rysiek please, no. This was all utter garbage and ended up with people staying with bad/expensive ISPs because they held their email address hostage.

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