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echo: locsysop
to: Paul Edwards
from: Bob Lawrence
date: 1996-07-04 08:49:48
subject: internet

PE> Bob, I've calculated that if you get your 90-seconds connection
 PE> time to an ISP instead of me, it would cost you an extra 30% on
 PE> your bill. ie you currently spend $7.50, you would have to pay
 PE> an extra $2.25 (per month) to get internet mail instead (at
 PE> $3/hour). 

  Yair... Fido is in its death throws already. Once you start using
the Internet the time available for Fido shrinks, and thus it dies.

  If I were using an ISP I'd worry about a 15-second modem handshake
and rewrite TinyPoint to minimise online housekeeping.

Regards,
Bob
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