On Thursday 17 Mar 2005 16:25, Josenildo Marques wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 08:18 +0200, Duncan Anderson wrote: > > I agree with Greg. In a low bandwidth situation such as mine, a mailing > > list works much better. Website based forums are a major pain in the > > behind if you have a slow third-world type dialup connection, whereas > > you can always go and make yourself a cup of tea or something while the > > mail is downloading. With a forum, you have to watch the screen so that > > you can click where appropriate, etc. > > > > cheers > > Duncan > > Third-world dial-up connection...? Does that mean that people in the so > called third world only have that type of connection ? Isn't it a bit of > prejudice on your side ? > TTFN
I don't think he meant that, Josenildo, or at least the way I read it was 'If you're condemned to using dial-up you are excluded from the modern world' - and to that extent he's right. It's really only when you're used to adsl and have to use a dial-up connection that you remember just how slow and expensive it is, and how you can't possibly consider enormous downloads because your provider will cut you off. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels
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