[conspire] suggestions for web based email

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Paul Zander (paulz at ieee.org):

[no thoughts about outsourced e-mail, as I prefer to do my own]

> I could also consider dropping ATT as ISP, but how does that work when
> ATT owns the cable?

Under the applicable regulatory regime (flowing from the
Telecommunications Act of 1996), AT&T[0] is required to let its telco
cable between your residence and the telco central office be a neutral
transport for traffic handled by any carrier.  In the lingo, it is
considered an ILEC (incumbent local exchange carrier).  Those other
carriers required by law to be permitted to use the cable are dubbed
CLECs (competitive local exchange carriers).

More at:  https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/ilec.htm

So, for example, Chez Moen's landline cable carries aDSL traffic between
my Westell aDSL bridge device[1] and Raw Bandwidth Communications's DSLAM 
(digital subscriber line access multiplexer) in the telco central office
-- over telephone company, i.e., ILEC, twisted-pair wire.

We like Raw Bandwidth Communications.  Good firm.


[0] Formerly SBC, formerly Pacific Telesis, formerly Pacific Bell,
formerly AT&T.

[1] A type of hardware appliance popularly but erroneously called a
'modem'.