krow's Journal: ISPs

Once upon a time I had a great little ISP. I never talked to them, things worked, and life was good. Then the outsourced themselves to an ISP called The River.

Now I deal with a flat bridged network, customer support people who mass email all the clients not using BCC, and the fact that The River seems to be filled with dumbasses who don't know how to set up routers such that incomming addresses won't get spoofed. Which means that my sendmail servers end up being told that they are connected to themselves and allow people to spam others (sorry about the 12K of "Make Money Fast" messages from China to Yahoo this morning).

I have always been a big supporter of small ISPs. They typically give great support and tend to have a clue.

This is the reason I get sad every time I see one get gobbled up by a larger one.

The River

[panache]

I actually had to deal with 'The River' a couple years ago- pretty astoundignly incompetent, I thought. I'm rather surprised that they are still around- they seemed to be going for the 'most incompetent ISP ever' award.

Sorry to hear about your ISP, too- from what I knew of it, it seemed to be a good place, with some good people.