> Out of curiosity, I would be interested in having some ideas about: > > * how many people (what regions of the world) have to pay a "metered" > rate for their Internet access Most people in Europe that do not have access to ADSL or Cable internet (like me). Using a phone line already costs money, local phone calls are charged between $0.60 and $1.00 per hour (as far as I know) > What I mean is that the US is not a place where, AFAIK, anyone should > have such a problem. Correct. In the US. I am in the Netherlands, paying an ISDN line (about US$ 30 a month), my ISP ($15 a month) and the local phone charges of $.60 per hour. No charge on the amount of bandwidth I use unless I take things to extremes. But with these charges, taking the extreme route is not what I am aiming at. I don't even download things > 8 megs. Only downloading my mail and usenet messages (offline) costs me around $100 per month, not counting the costs of the ISDN line. (I used mailfilter to toss spam etc. off the server before downloading, but that took about as long as downloading everything and then let procmail take care of things.) Expensive enough, me thinks... I hope this satisfies part of your curiosity. Paul
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