On Sunday, October 13, 2002, at 07:54 PM, Gerald Uhlan wrote: > I see your point. I had forgotten about the way it was in the old > days, > when you had to pay for every minute you were online. I've never even > used > the phone modem on this iMac. I don't even know if it works! On the > other > hand, when I did have to pay by the hour, I used to use a function > where it > would sign on just long enough to send and retrieve my e-mail. Then I > did > my reading and composing offline. It was a nice, money-saving feature.
I think you misunderstood me. For YOU paying per minute is "the good old days." For other members of this list, paying per minute is today and probably the foreseeable future. In some countries, ALL phone calls are toll calls, not just ones to other cities or area codes. In some places, they not only pay their ISP per-minute or per-hour charges, they have to pay their phone company per-minute as well. Some people even here in the US don't have local dialup numbers and, in order to even get on the internet, they have to make a long distance call to another city to get even a 14.4kbps connection to the internet. This isn't "the good old days" for some people. -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
