[Discuss] Anyone Else?

[Darren Duncan]

Speaking for my household, we have been using Shaw's pipe service since 
March of 2000.  We have never used any other internet related services 
of theirs; our email and websites are hosted with a separate dedicated 
hosting company, Baremetal, since 1999.

I don't think my household has ever gotten email from Shaw; all our 
contact from them has been by snail mail, and that was just the bills. 
So never saw the message in question nor any similar ones.

The current modem we have with Shaw is the exact same box we got from 
them when we started using their service (a Teryan).  It never had a 
standby button and even now that I know some modems do, I don't see the 
use of having one in general.

Regarding the comment about someone getting their modem "for free", I 
don't think that was the case.  AFAIK, if you haven't "bought" your 
modem, you are actually paying a rental fee to Shaw, around $4 per month.

Come to think of it, perhaps we should by our modem or a modem to save 
on this.  Not that buying was feasable when we started on the service 
though ... all modems were rented, and to actually buy one would have 
probably cost a thousand dollars, or so I recall hearing, perhaps wrongly.

-- Darren Duncan

P.S.  This is my very first non-test email that I sent following my 
switch to Thunderbird (2.0.0.12) from Eudora (6.2.4) after using some 
Eudora since we started on the 'net in 1997.  The switch involved 
migrating around 2000 mailboxes and 300,000 archived messages. 
Hopefully it will all work out.