22 Jan
2003
22 Jan
'03
5:40 a.m.
There's nothing wrong with Hotmail. And, of course, I realize this mailing
list has subscribers around the world. Mine was a sarcastic comment. It is
because it has subscribers around the world that I said that ... if everyone
griped and complained like he did, there would no longer be any useful
information mailed out. I subscribed because I wanted mail about "classic
computers" not about some guy complaining he gets too much mail.
Anyway, I am done with the subject, and await future mail that is on-topic.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Lawson" <jpl15(a)panix.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: A plea to classiccmpers
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Daniel Hicks wrote:
Pay by the minute for connection time? You're getting screwed.
[snipped]
Yeah, like Hotmail is the Deal of the Century... I guess where you live
they never heard of the rest of the world, or that Classiccmp just *might*
be read in COTUS (Countries Other Than the US)... hmmm?
When I lived in India, my ISP charged by the message unit, it was not
uncommon for my monthly bill to be Rs. 15,000 to 17,000. And the Rupee is
48 to the dollar - you do the math.
Of course you seem to miss the point - that on a universal mailing list
like this, there is a certain etiquette that evolved so all users of the
List can gain maximum benefit - not just the vast majority of MS users.
I am running a strictly ASCII mailer - Pine to be exact, under a Unix
shell account. Mime, Base64, attachments, jpegs... and long, untrimmed
multi-hundred line (already-read) messages with "Me Too!" prepended is
what he (and I) (and many others) are complaining about.
Just FYI....
Cheers
John