On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Al Kossow wrote: meernet was a customer of TLG! the little garden -- and other toasternets (as they were called) at the time -- stirred a lot of shit in the internet. Our policy was essentially "you own your own words" and we allowed resale at any and all level of service. Period. No questions asked. Try that today! It wasn't allowed then either -- which is why we were kicked off alternet. The existing soon-to-be-ISPs (alternet, psi, etc) all wanted the whole pie for themselves. We sold do-it-yourself T1 to the internet for $800/month, and told you how to order your own circuits, how to buy your own router and CSU, how to config etc. MCI didn't sell T1's within a few hundred miles of us -- really. We sold T1 internet to Nevada; the cost of the ckt (at $22/mi/mo) still saved them money over MCI et al. And we allowed resale. via.net, scruz.net (early on) all the little value-addeds in the bay area were our customers. MCI charged $2400/mo for the same thing we did (with more hand0holding though), made you buy a router from them (inflated) didn't let you into it, and disallowed resale -- exceptions were made in our neighborhoods. We sold 24/7 28K nailup for $85/mo; 56K frame with 19K CIR for < $50/mo. CHEEP!! ANd made money doing it.