22 Jan
2003
22 Jan
'03
6:22 a.m.
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:41:26PM -0500, Daniel Hicks wrote:
Pay by the minute for connection time? You're getting screwed.
Newsflash: free bandwith is not available everywhere in the world.
Cheap broadband access is far less common than you seem to think, most
people worldwide (yes, as a matter of fact, there is more to the world
that the US) access the internet through:
- rather thin pipes (I'm sitting behind 64 KBit/s ISDN - which is quite
a lot),
- pay either for connection time or traffic volume consumed,
Besides, trimming the replies one sends is also a matter of politeness.
Regards,
Alex.
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