Welcome to Comcast High-Speed Internet!

[Hewitt Tech]

I'm not sure what your message means. The problem Comcast has with Linux is
that they don't have an easy way to re-configure email clients on that
platform. Any Linux system connected to Comcast should continue to work
except that Linux users will need to manually re-configure their email (not
a huge job really). One thing that Comcast has said - and I'm not sure why,
is that if you don't use their transition program, your old email address
won't be forwarded to your new email address. I have no idea why though. I
would expect that to just work. Perhaps they won't setup the forwarding
unless you use their program?

In any case, due to a move, I'm going to drop Comcast in favor of Verizon
DSL which is *much* cheaper for me. I'm currently paying almost $70/month
for my Comcast cable-modem (partially because I don't have the expensive
cable service). The DSL account will cost me ~$30/month and according to
Verizon there are no extra taxes on the connection.

-Alex

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <bscott at ntisys.com>
To: "Greater NH Linux User Group" <discuss at gnhlug.org>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: Welcome to Comcast High-Speed Internet!



  (My apologies in advance for the low-content message.)

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, at 5:08pm, wflagg at TFF.Com wrote:
> We do not currently offer an automated configuration tool for the Linux
> operating system.

  Earth to Comcast: Try fscking DHCP!

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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