And the moral of the thread is use p2pool? What about slush's?
The moral of this thread should be to use the link below and other tools and research to pick several pools that suit your needs/wants the best. Those wants and needs are different for each of us. You should always have more than one pool in your failover list.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104664.msg1146108#msg1146108And remember, there ain't nuthin free!
Sam