Big Ed's Discount Internet

Matthew Kuenzel <mxk39@po.CWRU.Edu> wrote:
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>Which commercial service do you all recommend - not AOL, OK then
>which one?

Big Ed's Discount Internet. That's big-ed.net for those not in the know. He's a relative to Big Jim Thudmeyer, whose Casino and Bait Shop is doing a fine business over here. Big Ed Poontang decided to get into "that new computer biz" the hard way and bought a T1 line for his son's Unix (god only knows how this kid got one.) Anyhow, now Big Ed's got his own Internet service, or, as Ed puts it, "Your Onramp to that Road Thing." Here are some of the amenities offered by big-ed.net:

• A flat rate of $5 a month, provided Big Ed can remember to bill you
• You can make your own login name or have Big Ed pick one for you
• If someone complains to postmaster@big-ed.net (guess who the postmaster is) he'll tell 'em to shut their whiny yap.
• 20 megs standard per account 'cause Big Ed don't know what a meg is.
• Any command line with 'MAKE.MONEY.FAST' in it is automatically aliased to 'rm -fr *'
• EdMUD is up and running at port 4444 with a virtual rendering of the town of Podunk
• The computer is kept out back in Ed's rusted-out '74 pickup
• Any and all Brooks & Dunn songs are archived in .AU in the directory /pub/songs/boot-scoot-boogie
• Ed's homepage (http://big-ed.net/~ed/ed.html) includes a sound file of Big Ed saying "WHEE DOGGIES!" and is worth just checking out
• All the USENET newsgroups in existence, including "them sexy ones"
• And most importantly, Big Ed himself will come over to your house every now and then and play Doom with you.

- spatch, "Whut? It don't mean popcorn?" -

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