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

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From: Ronald J. Bischof
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 00:00

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In article <3225af91.428744@news.sirius.com>, trebor@sirius.com wrote:

> 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.

Gee, sounds wasteful and boring. I just set Eudora Pro 3.0 to check my
mail every 8 minutes and stay connected as long as I want.
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Ron Bischof
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From: rbischof@pobox.com (Ronald J. Bischof)
Subject: Re: DOES NETCOM TERMINATE Users Who Use Excessive Online Time?
Date: 1996/08/29
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