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Article #860Re: Mpowered News --- Action required
From: G. Wayne Hines
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:18
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:18
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In an earlier episode, "Schooner" <schooner@accesswave.ca> wrote: > There would be no need to reduce the speed of closer customers in order to > give farther ones the 1.5 speed. Perhaps they did this to justify charging > the farther and slower ones the same rate. IE everyone gets the same speed > and thus they can justify the same fees. So instead of charging less if you > were slower than others just make everyone slower and charge the same higher > rate. But if they're planning "Mpowered Turbo" as suggested by Mike Annand, this would make sense. gwh -- # G. Wayne Hines Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada # # w.d.hines@ns.sympatico.ca # # Windows: A rich man's poor excuse for an operating system #
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1015e0,e3ef6bc1178a5d3c X-Google-Attributes: gid1015e0,public X-Google-Thread: fbdd9,3c08aad2a3c33413 X-Google-Attributes: gidfbdd9,public X-Google-Thread: fc08a,e3ef6bc1178a5d3c X-Google-Attributes: gidfc08a,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-18 05:47:10 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-04!supernews.com!telocity-west!TELOCITY!news-out.nuthinbutnews.com!propagator2-sterling!news-in-sterling.newsfeed.com!cyclone.bc.net!torn!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: w.d.hines@ns.sympatico.ca (G. Wayne Hines) Message-ID: <HU4cdQdxQ4gO-pn2-uFdozJCr3jKb@localhost> Newsgroups: hfx.general,can.atlantic.forsale,hfx.forsale Subject: Re: Mpowered News --- Action required References: <eAEh9.84272$C8.213046@nnrp1.uunet.ca> <U8Qh9.4821$0i4.663102@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca> <SDQh9.84952$C8.216528@nnrp1.uunet.ca> <5TTh9.86404$C8.217665@nnrp1.uunet.ca> <vlVh9.86410$C8.217694@nnrp1.uunet.ca> <HU4cdQdxQ4gO-pn2-6dYdcviPGv8F@localhost> <A3_h9.86912$C8.218012@nnrp1.uunet.ca> User-Agent: ProNews/2 V1.52.cp012 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 22 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:18:40 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.177.206.87 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1032351520 142.177.206.87 (Wed, 18 Sep 2002 08:18:40 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 08:18:40 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico