An ISP of their own (was RE: [rescue] Being jobless)

[Phil Stracchino]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 02:08:19PM -0400, Earl D. Baugh Jr. wrote:
> It helps, that if you have, your own class C IP address (like I 
> do).   You'll have to
> do a lot of 'splaing to folks, but you also can rather quickly weed out the 
> ISP's that
> don't know very much....my favorite line was "You don't have a class C 
> address"
> to which I replied, "Why don't you go to Arin and check..."...a few sec, and
> a very quiet "oh, I'm sorry".  Needless to say, they didn't get my business.


So ...  how (and when) *did* you get your own allocated Class C?


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