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From: Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <bhk@dsl.co.uk>
Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 96 18:37:01 GMT
Organization: Dragonhill Systems Ltd
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Message-ID: <836073421snz@dsl.co.uk>
References: <31D4AA3A.BC0@www.play-hookey.com>
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In article <31D4AA3A.BC0@www.play-hookey.com>
kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com "Ken Bigelow" writes:
> If you have a connection limited to 200 b/s, why not make the connection, start > the download, and then go to bed? Most dialers (Trumpet Winsock, the user PPP
> program in FreeBSD, etc.) can have an inactivity timeout so that the connection > will shut down 5 minutes (or whatever) after the transfer ends, so connection
> time should not be a problem.
In amongst all the grossly overlong lines above (whatever happened to the
Usenet convention of writing no more than 72--76 characters per line?)
it's easy to see that Ken lives in a world where the connection time is
of limited or zero cost. Here in the UK, all telephone calls are charged
for: even at the cheapest rate, the charge is still 1p/minute, and for
other times of the day, and for non-local calls (many users do not have
ISPs such as Demon, who provide local call access throughout an entire
kingdom), the charge can be as great at 10p/min. At those rates, leaving
a connection to plod along at 200B/s is *not* a realistic option.
--
Brian {Hamilton Kelly} bhk@dsl.co.uk
"A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy"
-- Samuel Johnson