ATTN SELF-STYLED LIST POLICE (was RE: Mr. Day)
Thomas Cameron
thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Tue Dec 7 11:38:18 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 17:04 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
>
> > If it were all at once, I could see it being prohibitive. But 150MB
> > over the course of the whole month is still very much do-able on dial-
> > up. Not pleasant to be sure, but do-able. I downloaded Slackware back
> > in '95 over dial-up, and it was significantly more than 150 megs. I
> > didn't like it very much, but there were no show-stoppers in doing it.
>
> for dial up users around here it certainly *is* a showstopper. they
> wouldnt even dream of doing it. period.
Where is "around here?" Are you saying that 150 megs over the course of
a whole month is not possible there? Ouch.
Thomas
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