On a webmaster newsgroup I follow occasionally I have read numerous complaints against CIHost, the class action you refer to, and court action taken by the company themselves against customers who won't pay for services they claim were not provided etc. etc. It did surprise me that CIHost seemed to be host of choice for many using WWWThreads. I felt it wasn't my place to warn people off them because I don't use them and I would not be coming from a position of experience. People on here who do use them seem to find them ok.
Thanks for the thoughts on OLM, they sound good.
Darren.
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