>From: "Nick Urban" <nurban at calpoly.edu> >Reply-To: chat at freenetproject.org >To: <chat at freenetproject.org> >Subject: Re: [freenet-chat] Message boards >Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 14:18:16 -0700 > >This is not really ethnocentric, perse, since USA is very ethnically >diverse. >Call it amerocentric maybe? Nationcentric? > >Nick Urban > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <roger at hayter.org> >To: <chat at freenetproject.org> >Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 4:45 AM >Subject: Re: [freenet-chat] Message boards > >This, unfortunately, is a very ethnocentric position. Through most of >the world, other than USA, people pay a lot for local telephone calls. >Certainly in the UK, Internet access for more than about an hour a day >is cheaper than dialling a BBS. Also, Internet cafes are an option for >those with no telephone line. > >-- >Roger Hayter
You must be joking!! How can it possibly be cheaper, unless you get it free at a Library or something, to have Internet access than a Local Call to a BBS?! People like me can't afford to use things like DSL and must therefore use Local Phone Calls. As far as I know, that comes down to one single monthly price that doesn't change no matter how many local calls we make. If things are done differently in other countries then that is WAY wrong!! :( If we were being charged for every local call we make from our house phone system, we would NEVER call anyone or anything unless it was Very important. I certainly wouldn't be allowed to use Email or the Web from home. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list Chat at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
