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[Travis Roy]

> Someone really should do a human interest story on MV at some point.  
> Even though (boo!  hiss!  Well, no...) they use BSD, they really are an 
> interesting success story.  I've used them on and off since I moved to 
> NH going on 13 years ago, now, and they've always been there.  [For 
> several years, the company I worked for, Summa Four, had 
> username at summa4.mv.com as their e-mail addresses, to boot.]  Unless I'm 
> woefully mistaken, they're actually one of the oldest extant ISPs 
> running... and they really are still customer oriented, instead of the 
> bizarre sweatshop-esque support crews at large ISPs.  Sadly, www.mv.com 
> seems to be down at the moment, so I can't scrounge up add'l info, but 
> I'd be interested in hearing their story.  Lastly, a trivia question: 
> what's MV stand for?

I used to have a friend that worked for the Hippo (local Manchester 
paper published every Thursday) but he has since moved :(

They do use BSD (the real deal, not this FreeBSD stuff). They were one 
of the first ISPs in the country offering UUCP.

I worked there for about 7 months in tech support. Then moved on to 
MediaOne due to much better pay/experience but I loved it there. Great 
people that I'm still friends with. I still stop by their offices from 
time to time to say hi.

MV has been rumored to stand for Merrimac Vally, but it really doesn't 
stand for anything.