Re: DOES NETCOM TERMINATE Users Who Use Excessive Online Time?

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From: trebor
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 00:00

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mitchb2@ix.netcom.com (Maestro) wrote:

>teddybur@netcom.com (John Sanger) wrote:
>>By unlimited use, Netcom has defined this as active keyboard involvement
>>with you sitting in front of your keyboard and actively inputting
>>keystrokes from time to time.......
>
>What if you set Agent to download a ton of stuff from binaries groups?
>I've done that before and wasn't disconnected.

Then you're generating traffic, and that's ok. In fact, that's probably the
best way to read newsgroups online. Start of big batch of binary downloads,
then go read your newsgroup.

Saturate your connection as much as possible. If you don't use all your
bandwidth, it just goes to waste.

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From: trebor@sirius.com
Subject: Re: DOES NETCOM TERMINATE Users Who Use Excessive Online Time?
Date: 1996/08/29
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