11th December 2010, 1:23 AM
The other issue with ISPs is they all don't want to admit the truth, that they exist solely to provide a big pipe to get people connected to the internet at large. They're currently pretending they do "so much more" but nothing's really come of it, except poor quality e-mail and a few "liscensed content deals" for things like E-SPAN.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)