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1995-02-06 - Re: “encrypt tcp connections” hacks

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
To: Thomas Grant Edwards <tedwards@src.umd.edu>
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Reply To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950206130709.20818A-100000@thrash.src.umd.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1995-02-06 18:30:41 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 6 Feb 95 10:30:41 PST

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 95 10:30:41 PST
To: Thomas Grant Edwards <tedwards@src.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: "encrypt tcp connections" hacks
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Thomas Grant Edwards says:
> On Mon, 6 Feb 1995, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> > Remember, by the way, that PPP is far cheaper per customer than shell
> > accounts, even though moronic providers right now don't make it look
> > that way.
> 
> PPP/SLIP is currently not cheaper per customer - if you figure in the 
> time your help desk staff put in over the first couple of weeks of a new 
> customer coming on line.

Thats because the providers never package things up cleanly. If they
sent a client on a disk, a la AOL, and they set things up to
autoconfigure, they'd never need to speak to the clients.

Perry

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