GW>
  > JdeBP> I find that extremely annoying too.  Fortunately, I can get onto
  > JdeBP> the DAP site from work.
  >
  > Lucky you! I'd need to fork out at least 120 quid for an account with
  > Demon or other Internet provider (VAT reclaimed).
GW>

  I sympathise.  I certainly wouldn't pay out of my own pocket.  As far
  as I'm concerned, the company gets the benefit of my accessing the
  DAP, so it can damned well pay for the connection.

GW>
  > I find it _very_ frustrating! I could call a BBS in the USA and
  > download the messages and files I got from the EMEA DAP BBS for less
  > (a _lot_ less) than the annual Internet connection fee I'd have to pay
  > to a UK provider :-(.
GW>

  Exactly.  Had they stuck with the Maximus setups, and put something
  like BinkleyTerm or MainDoor in front of them, we could even have
  automated most of that, and reduced connection times to the absolute
  minimum.

  With the amount of FTN software available for OS/2, I often wonder why
  no-one ever sold IBM on the idea that alongside the IAK they could
  ship a IBM FTN Access Kit, which could come presupplied with (say) a
  nodelist for all of the IBM BBSes, and a simple offline file transfer
  and echomail setup.

GW>
  >                       I even suspect that with the typical Internet
  > connection times and data transfer rates the phone call costs would turn
  > out to be very similar for a local Internet connect to the LD BBS
  > connect...
GW>

  One other reason that the company can damn well pay the DAP connection
  charges in my book.  Even with the ISDN connection at work I've had
  FTP connections just hang for several minutes at a time, or simply
  drop dead 500Kb through a 2Mb file.  Imagine paying the on-line
  charges for doing that via SLIP/PPP!  Give me v32bis and zmodem resume
  anyday.

  > JdeBP <
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