lots of problems solved: my life story

[Raul A. Gallegos]

Yes, this is old news. They've been partnered with MSN for 5 years or
more <smile>. Read my prior message on how it works.

Tyler Littlefield said the following on 11/27/2008 4:58 PM:
> I think they've got multiple connections now.
> Now they offer the ISP, and a modem etc etc, and I believe they're in 
> partmership with msn, or this q.com what ever that is.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Tyler Littlefield
> email: tyler at tysdomain.com
> web: tysdomain-com
> Visit for quality software and web design.
> skype: st8amnd2005
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul at asmodean.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 10:09 AM
> Subject: Re: lots of problems solved: my life story
> 
> 
>> Actually the way it works, or the way it used to when I lived in 
>> Denver was like this.
>>
>> Qwest would provide the dsl connection, and by default they would add 
>> msn as the isp. However, if you got another isp which was a 
>> Qwest-approved carrier, you could use them over the Qwest dsl line. 
>> That isp you chose would be the one to give you email access via their 
>> routers. Now, ironically you could use qwest.net as the isp over qwest 
>> dsl services. If you did this, you got no email access, not even 
>> through qwest.net. This is the way I went with qwest as the dsl and 
>> the isp without email access.
>>
>> Hope this clears it up.
>>
>> Tyler Littlefield said the following on 11/26/2008 5:17 PM:
>>> no, the tech was right. They show a list of smtp addresses, but it's 
>>> not for home useage.
>>> they usually supply a "q.com" or a msn.com email address or something 
>>> similar to home customers (odd)
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tyler Littlefield
>>> email: tyler at tysdomain.com
>>> web: tysdomain-com
>>> Visit for quality software and web design.
>>> skype: st8amnd2005
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" 
>>> <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
>>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
>>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:11 PM
>>> Subject: Re: lots of problems solved: my life story
>>>
>>>
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>>>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 02:53:20PM -0700, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>>>>> something I find extremely odd:
>>>>> I am using smtp for my moo; their smtp and pop accounts are both
>>>>> pop.bla.qwest.com (where bla==the zone).
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, I was going to say that qwest not providing smtp to residential
>>>> customers sounded extremely odd. I've been on static IP with them
>>>> since the beginning, so I can't definitely say they're wrong, but from
>>>> what I saw when browsing their site, it sure looked like they provide
>>>> smtp and pop3 to their customers, residential, or not. Besides, I've
>>>> never heard of a residential ISP before that didn't provide full
>>>> e-mail to their customers. My opinion is that the tech just told you
>>>> that because they could use the extra money from you (setup fee, and
>>>> monthly charges), but then what do I know. Anyway, if you're going to
>>>> run a server on your connection, and you have no problem paying a bit
>>>> extra for the static Ip, then keeping it is probably the way to go.
>>>>
>>>> Greg
>>>>
>>>>
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