From: jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Subject: Re: comp.lang.ada mail feed is down
Date: 1999/11/05
Date: 1999-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <941775130.8snx@jvdsys.stuyts.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3820A92D.BEA5F2A9@pwfl.com
In article <3820A92D.BEA5F2A9@pwfl.com> condicma@pwflcom writes:
>As for the cost of getting newsgroup access (at least in the U.S.A.) most ISPs
>will provide you with a feed via Netscape just as a normal part of the service.> My
>home link-up costs about $20 a month and the phone hookup is a local call, so I
>don't see price as a major issue. I'm wondering if the cost is dramatically> higher
>in other parts of the world?
Here in europe (I use a dialup connections both in France and in the
Netherlands) the cost of using the internet is not the ISP, its the
phone connection.
On average (mixing business and non-business hours) I pay about $5.50 per
hour for a local connection. That add's up pretty quick...
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-02 0:00 comp.lang.ada mail feed is down Duncan Sands
1999-11-02 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-11-02 0:00 ` bill
1999-11-03 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-05 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk [this message]
1999-11-05 0:00 ` Duncan Sands
1999-11-05 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-11-05 0:00 ` Duncan Sands
1999-11-05 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-11-05 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
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