Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

[Michael]

So run your email through a filter before downloading it? Combine that
with serious bitching at your phone company for being overpriced.

<clipped to reduce $$$>
> No it is not that simple.
> 
> I frequently used to work overseas.  I collected my e-mail using a
> laptop/cellphone, often at 2400bps due to poor international connectivity,
> at International roaming rates ($1.60/minute).  At that rate, a 10k (with
> headers) post would take over 40 seconds to download, costing me personally
> over a buck.
> 
> Multiply that up by the number of off-topic posts in this forum recently,
> and it adds up to a lot of money!
> 
> Maybe I should start invoicing the posters...