On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:36:04 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Julie Sloan wrote: > > On Thursday 17 March 2005 09:45 am, SOTL wrote: > > > >>On Thursday 17 March 2005 11:25, Josenildo Marques wrote: > >> > >>>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 > >> > >>Hell man I live in a major US city with Verizon as the phone company and > >>earthlink as the ISP and I only have 4th world service. Would love for > >>Verizon to provide at least 3rd world but the chances of that are null > >>and less than negative infinity. > > > > > > > > Heh. I went from 36.6Kbps in a major US city to 56Kbps in a minor US town > > and consider myself blessed. It'll be twenty years before we get DSL. :-\ > > > When I got my house, I had two phone lines put in right away so I would > have one for the computer. This was before DSL or Cable Internet was > available. The phone company had a shortage of lines in the area, so > they used this box that multiplexed two phone lines on one pair of > wires. The best I could do was 26.6Kps. You would not believe how happy > I was when Telosity started offering DSL in my area. It was worth all > the trouble I had to go through to actualy get it installed. (I also > loved that they gave you a static IP, and would let you run servers.) > > Mikkel > -- > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, > for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! > > > ____________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > ____________________________________________________ > > > Just to get back on topic slightly. Gmail does a really good job of keeping the threads together and displaying as a single html page as specified in the original email. Being free and having very few graphics enables it to be quite speedy on almost any connection. My suggestion is to find someone with a gmail account and see about getting an invite.
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