Re: "Naive" (not so stupid) Newbie bashfully seeks help

[Michael Dillon <michael () memra com>]

> This isn't appropriate for the nanog mailing list.
> Perhaps you'd like to try inet-access?
> Check out www.amazing.com for the inet-access FAQ.

Best to spell it out in excruciating detail for newbies....

There are copious resources to help new ISP's available at
http://www.amazing.com/internet  Be sure to check
http://www.mtiweb.com/isp as well. You can join one of several ISP mailing
lists by sending a message reading subscribe to:

inet-access-request () earth com       General ISP discussions
freebsd-isp-request () freebsd org     Using FreeBSD as an ISP
linuxisp-request () lightning com      Using Linux as an ISP
isp-marketing-request () sparknet net  ISP marketing and management (no tech
                                    stuff on this list)
There is also a listserv for general discussions by small to midsize isp's
that can be joined by sending

subscribe IAP Your Name

to listserv () vma cc nd edu

There is an ISP trade association that you may wish to join. Info is
available at http://www.ispc.org

And last but most important, if any of you are ISP's on this mailing list
and were not aware of the above resources, send me a private email telling
me how you learned about the NANOG mailing list. I'd like to try and see
that information about the above resources is available wherever you
learned about NANOG since NANOG is more directed towards the larger ISP
that is planning to multihome or that runs a national backbone network.

Thanks.

Michael Dillon                   -               ISP & Internet Consulting
Memra Software Inc.              -                  Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com             -               E-mail: michael () memra com

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