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Hello Thomas,
Tuesday, August 08, 2000, 11:43:24, you wrote:
TF> Hi Jamie,
TF> On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:19:37 +0100GMT (08/08/2000, 18:19 +0800GMT),
TF> Jamie Dainton wrote:
TF> Hear, hear. I want to know what others say to this: Is this mailing
TF> list only for high-bandwidth privileged users? If so, I will
TF> immediately withdraw and not bother the elected few any longer.
IMO 3K to 4K transfer rates are not high bandwidth. We are not
privileged users, this is a standard transfer rate for most standard
modem users in most countries.
ISDN and ASDL are high bandwidth connections as are T1->T3. 33.6 & 56K
users are the norm. I connect to a local exchange 15 miles away, using
copper wires which have not been replaced for at least 12 years, to an
exchange which sometimes gives an exchange signal because we have used
all the exchange capacity.
In the village I live in the phone lines are frequently down during
the winter as is the power. ISDN and it's many high speed variants are
not available. I use a bargain basement 56K internal winModem and dial
up to a free ISP. I think that proves we're not all high bandwidth
users.
I use S/Mime because it is natively supported by many clients. I don't
use a fictitious name on mailing lists because it is important to me
that people know it is me who mailed them. You may disagree and if so we
should continue the signing conflict under another subject.
I await your reply.
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Jamie Dainton
Tuesday, August 08, 2000 11:57:04
The Bat! 1.46 Beta/3
Windows 98 4.10 2222
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