John McCoy wrote in
. 11:

Rich Andrews wrote in
.44:

JD, When it comes to ISP desginations, either you use an ISP or you
are
an ISP. You cannot connect to the net unless you are one or the other.

This is not correct. There are many people who have connections
that do not go thru an ISP (for starters, most .edu and .mil
users have a connection to the backbone which does not go thru
an ISP). Some folk will also argue that AOL is not, strictly,
an ISP.

John


Universities and other get their connetivity from somewhere, be it MCI,
UUNET, of whoever and those entities that sell connectivity are called
ISP's. It doesn't matter if the connectivity is a 28.8 dialup or a OC-48
or a T-3, the entitiy doing the selling is a Internet Service Provider.
Some may classed a backbone provider but the generic term still applies.

r


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