Re: Tell Telstra to stop sending you dead trees.

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From: David Clayton
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:44

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On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:11:02 +0000, terryc wrote:

> On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:20:44 +1000, B J Foster wrote:
> 
> 
>>> Sorry, make that 8,000,000 non-dial-up. Still makes the 1M dial-up the
>>> "small percentage" and that quantity has no doubt has dropped even
>>> further since 12/09.
> 
> So your view of democracy is fsck the minority?

The claim was that the MAJORITY used modems and could not use on-line
directories, which is patently false.

If you want a 20th century way of looking up phone numbers don't expect
the rest of us who have moved on to continue to subsidise your wasteful
habits.

My view of "democracy" is that people shouldn't be held back by (or pay
for) those that has some bizarre sense of entitlement that because
something once was it should remain so forever.

This country is full of those who just whinge about any change, no matter
how trivial or bogus the objections are - just recall the whingeing and
outcry when we ALL moved to 8 digit phone numbers, wow the sky really fell
in then to.....

-- 
Regards, David.

David Clayton
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a
measure of how many questions you have.

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