>  > Just a note of caution: I don't know who said it,
>>  but "You should
>>  never attribute to mendacity what is sufficiently
>>  explained by
>>  stupidity!"
>>
>>  Dan Killoran
>
>I had that in mind, but I think it's a bit more
>ominous than that. Everybody I called on the phone had
>no idea what a TCP/IP network really was, so I went
>down to the local Cox gestapo office. I asked to speak
>to someone in their network support area. So two guys
>come out. I handed them my network settings that THEY
>mailed me that included a DNS name (that is still
>valid) and an IP address. He handed it back to me,
>looked me in the eye and said "That's not a static IP
>address". Uhh, excuse me? How can you hand someone an
>IP address, tell them to set their machine up to use
>it, never ask them to change it, and then *NOT* call
>it a static IP address?

Yup. Stupidity! I suspected as much!

Dan Killoran