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echo: osdebate
to: Bob.Ackley
from: Gary Britt
date: 2006-11-18 13:09:00
subject: Re: Hotmail to busy again?

From: Gary Britt 

Wow and I thought I lived in the boonies.

I think I'd have to move if I had to go to the library for internet access.

Hope things improve for you soon.

Gary

Bob.Ackley. wrote:
> Replying to a message of Gary Britt to Rich Gauszka:
>
>  GB> From: Gary Britt 
>
>  GB> Who in there right mind would ever use hotmail or aol or gmail?
>
> Someone who doesn't have a company email account or an ISP.  Like me.
> I use the local library's computers to access the Internet on the few
occasions
> where I feel the need to.  Out here in the boonies the phone lines are too
old
> to provide a connect at a speed greater than about 26KB; DSL and ISDN are not
> options due to distance (and Qwest doesn't offer ISDN out here anyway, their
> junk mail advertisements on the subject to the contrary).  Since I don't have
> $700 upfront for installation and $100/month for satellite service I'll have
to
> live without home internet service (and cable TV).
>
> --- FleetStreet 1.19+

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