[LINK] ISP list Was: Kate Lundy's web site

[Andy Farkas]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Tony Barry wrote:

> At 11:17 AM +1030 1/11/01, Brenda Aynsley wrote:
> >BTW dynamite was taken over by asiaonline I think and now of course is
> >ozemail which of course is yahoo.... is there any end to this?
>
> Yet the number of ISPs continues to grow. There are now almost 1100
> http://www.cynosure.com.au/isp/@statistics .
>
>   I remember a shake out being predicted 4 years ago when there were only 600.
>
> Tony
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I think you may only be seeing an increase in the database size and not
the number of actual ISPs out there. A new upstart is keen to get their
name on the list, but once they fold, who could be bothered making sure
the entry is deleted?

I know of a Tasmanian ISP that went out of business in 1998 but is still
listed - speed.net.au - I have asked a couple of times to have it removed
from the list to no avail...

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        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
 http://www.speednet.com.au/