Re: Text Based ISP?

[Tony Cianfaglione <ab616@chebucto.ns.ca>]

   The Chebucto Community Net (CCN) based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
(a city with only 110,000 people total with outlying areas) charges
$20.00 per year for text base Lynx access with full ftp, email, 1 mb
account space, full Internet access, TIN and PINE newsreaders with 17,000+
newsgroups and charges $100.00 per year for PPP access.

   CCN is also the host for the Nova Scotia Apple Users Group:

            http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Technology/NSAUG

   CCN's homepage is at: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/

   If you access to telnet, you can login as: guest

                    Telnet to: chebucto.ns.ca

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On 20 Jul 1999 tturner@ecn.ab.ca wrote:

> --> Not that Canadian info is all that relevant; but two things:
> 
>     (A) Edmonton FreeNet (now called Edmonton Community Net)
>         only charges $25.00 per year for unlimited TXT-access.
> 
>     (B) Edmonton is less than 1 million people and has only
>         ONE TXT-based ISP (as mentioned above & not including
>         the `old' University access - which still runs); while
>         Red Deer, which has less than a quarter of what we
>         have; has NO TXT-based ISP's at all. It seems that if
>         one lives in a small Canadian City - one is S.O.L for
>         low-cost Email & Internet access. Which also means
>         needing `newer' hardware/software for Graphical access.
>         I called the Red Deer ISP's and asked them if they
>         had TXT-based access. Typical response: "TXT-based?
>         Is that something new? I've never heard of that!" 
>         Pathetic - but true . . .