yqt

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   by yqt 8y ago

   Machine translation from Chinese I suppose.
2. 2.▲
   by yqt 8y ago

   >Xs4all offers a lot of technical advantages (e.g. being able to configure the ISP-side firewall to allow port 25 access). Where I live there's no ISP-side firewall on any ISP, so that would not be an advantage at all.
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   by yqt 8y ago

   They have nodes in EFnet and QuakeNet and had one in IRCnet back in the day. Doesn't strike me as odd, here in Spain most major ISPs had a stake in the national IRC network, back when latency mattered and IRC was a selling point.
4. 4.▲
   by yqt 8y ago

   How weasily-worded: >They were bought in '98 by the former state-owned KPN As if they couldn't avoid it. The owners of XS4ALL sold the business to KPN. They knew what KPN was going to do with it (dismantle all the "cool&qu