On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 10:49:48AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: | On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 01:24:01PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 11:50:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: | > | Hi Debian! | > | | > | Did you see that in announce? The next stable release is 13 cd's. That | > | just about prevents all people on 56kb modems (many in the so-called | > | "third" world) from downloading them and | > | > | will I ever see the set if I "order" them in Mexico by mail? | > | > Certainly, if I can assume that mail delivery in Mexico can be reliable. | | Hell, mail delivery in the US is slow, expensive and unreliable, how | are we to expect it to be somehow better in a third-world country? Well, there are other options - FedEx, UPS, etc. - if the government doesn't meet the requirements. The only question asked was whether or not the disc(s) would arrive. Speed and price weren't mentioned as criteria. I a single CD is light and small enough to not cost much to send, I expect, (or else AOL wouldn't give me free coasters :-)). (admittedly all thirteen cds would be a bit more expensive to send, and other sub-threads have covered the fact that usually only one or two cds are actually needed) As for the USPS, I haven't experienced unreliability with it. While I've never mailed something to Mexico, I have sent envelopes to Romania and they arrived intact (after about a month). HAND, -D -- "640K ought to be enough for anybody" -Bill Gates, 1981 www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ jabber: dman@dman13.dyndns.org
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