Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 10:38:18PM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 10:49:48AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Oh, BS. US is excellent in comparison to other countries for mail
> system. :-)
>
> Really, US does better than Canada for mail, I think. It may not be the
> cheapest in the worlds but it is better than most other countries. You
> use Canadian URL so I think you have some experience in Canadian system
> which is known to be slow.
>
> Anyway, it is not fair to make such a negative comment on US mail system
> despite its shortfalls, IMHO. US is not always the best but it does
> things better than most other countries.
Judging from what friends say about the US' mail system and what I know
of other systems, the US' mail system is dreadful compared to that of
many other first-world countries.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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