On Jul 15, 2004, at 10:46 PM, Blaz Antonic wrote:
>>    Cool. :-)  Buy me some plane tickets and consider me an American
>> refugee trying to escape a corrupt regime. :)
>
> Riiight ... it wasn't me who was implying that the likes of me should
> "dump the crappy ISP and give the business to one who will give you
> static addresses". While i don't mind  (and came to expect) an
> ideological remark here and there (when on topic, as in on the subject
> of OSes in our case) this kind of babbling really irritates me - if it
> was that easy people would do it already, don't you think ? Could there
> be objective reasons as to why some people use dynamic IPs only and yet
> haven't done anything wrong ?

   *sigh*

   You don't have to be a dick about it, Blaz.  It's not an ideological 
remark.  Dynamic IP addresses cause problems for lots of things.  From 
my experience, I firmly believe that, if one is serious about 
*participating* in the Internet (rather than just GIMME GIMME GIMME 
that most people seem to do these days), static addressing is a 
requirement.

          -Dave

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Dave McGuire             "...it's a matter of how tightly
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