On (20 May 95) Paul Edwards wrote to Alexander Watson Law...



 AWL> It was about 12 messages (all Text, no uuencodes or anything) some of 

 AWL> which he had to split manually to get past Mr Butler's 12k limit.

 PE> There 

 AWL> were 17 fragments, so 17*12 <= 210k, and more likely about 100k (NB Mr



 AWL> Butlers system passes through buckets of header crap, and adds a heap

 PE> of 

 AWL> it's own, up to 30 lines on some messages...) You seem to think it was

 PE> a 

 AWL> single 200k message...



 PE> If you had a 100k-200k message to send from him to you, how come

 PE> you didn't get him to upload it to your BBS or send it via floppy

 PE> like everyone else has to do?  I needed to send a 122k file to

 PE> America today, and I didn't even consider the internet gateway as

 PE> one of my options.  Despite having my own mammoth blues with

 PE> Michael Butler, I do think you are grossly abusing the system if

 PE> that is what you have been using it for.  Personally I am amazed

 PE> that there is a gateway at all.  The cheapest place you can get

 PE> internet mail is Dialix at 1c/k.  Assuming he has similar costs,

 PE> that is a lot of money to be paying.  I sure wouldn't do that.

 PE> Of course I couldn't give a rats arse about stuff that one point

 PE> is sending to another via 3:711/934, as I don't have to pay a

 PE> single cent for that.  But if I was paying for my mail, I would

 PE> certainly have different rules than I have now.  BFN.  Paul.



you can have a slip connection on ozemail for $5/hr, no per k charges.

if you can get a throughput of over 500k/hr its cheaper than dialix, and

i can ftp from the states faster than that.



                        Keith



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