Re: Freeserve time, Home highway & linux

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From: Nick Kew
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 00:00

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In article <slrn8li6rg.1dp.tmb@cow.tm-jabarton.freeserve.co.uk>,
	tmb@tm-jabarton.Xfreeserve.co.uk (Trevor Barton) writes:

>>reading web pages etc. I am actually not connected. The idea of trying
>>to sneak around the controls in place to minimise the use of bandwidth
>>we all have to share is very selfish.
> 
> Hear hear, I agree entirely ...

Agreed completely.

I think a good analogy here is with water supply.  The fact that for many
it's unmetered isn't widely regarded as a reason to leave your bath taps
running all day.

> using diald or something similar takes all of 10-15 seconds to connect 
> on ISDN and saves resources.

With ISDN dial-on-demand it's more like 1 second.

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