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From: gary@farcomp.UUCP (Gary Morrell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: The internet de-mystified
Message-ID: <293@farcomp.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 91 15:57:18 GMT
Reply-To: gary@farcomp.UUCP (Gary Morrell)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Farallon Computing Inc. Berkeley, CA
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I need some light shed on internet access.  Currently my sight has
timed dial up access to a number of local unix machines.  This provides
us with a news feed and a flow of e-mail.  We would like to, however,
get a full time connection.  So the questions are: are there companys
that will provide this service; what are the security implications; is 
there a good book that someone would like to recomend; what is the
proper protocol in asking  a site to provide a full time feed; isn't
it somewhat of a strain (i.e. cpu time, security, installation, etc.)
for a site to provide an internet feed? Any other pertinent info on this subject would be greatly appreciated.


naively yours,
              Gary Morrell