Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 11:06:32AM +0200, Stefan Nobis wrote:
> >>>>> In article <[🔎] 19990404104438.A182@rising.com.au>, Hamish Moffatt
> >>>>> <hamish@debian.org> writes:
>
> Hamish> What is your point? I never claimed unsolicited attachments
> Hamish> were acceptable, only that solicited ones of any size should
> Hamish> work.
>
> Then pay for it.
I do.
> The problem is not the transport but at your ISP. Your ISP has to save
> the message and he has to pay for the bandwidth. Donate your ISP a big
> harddisk and i think he will loosen your disk-quota. Pay for the
> bandwidth and i think you will be able to get even very big messages.
I do pay for bandwidth. And I own all the disk space my email is stored on.
And even if I didn't: disk is cheap. So please don't think I don't know
the issues here.
Charging per megabyte is a reality in Australia. Service providers do not
usually pass it on directly to their dialup customers, but hide it in
monthly and/or time charges.
Hamish
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