From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 21 15:25:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA10023 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 15:25:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10012 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 15:25:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 0zsEhQ-0006PW-00; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 23:25:18 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id XAA04537; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 23:24:47 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (rasnt-1) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA23839; Mon, 21 Dec 98 23:24:44 GMT Message-Id: <367EB47A.526E7B65@globalnet.co.uk> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:50:02 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Reply-To: marko@uk.radan.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cool, A White Snowy Christmas in Sunnyvale, California 8) References: <19981220235019.A6362@keltia.freenix.fr> <4.1.19981220152518.00ac53d0@genesis.ispace.com> <199812202020.MAA46296@rah.star-gate.com> <4.1.19981220152518.00ac53d0@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19981220203743.04583160@mail.lariat.org> <4.1.19981221104151.03df1690@mail.lariat.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > > At 08:37 AM 12/21/98 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > >Actually, we also have a special area code (0845) with a _low_ (a > >relative term) per-minute rate that all ISP's (and CompuServe and AOL) > >use. > > Low for you; outrageous for the US. When I was in the UK this summer, I > paid an average of 18p a unit from hotel rooms. Just checking e-mail, > when I could do it, cost a bundle. > Hotels of course charge whatever they like, which is usually many times more than the real cost of the call. Surely the same must be true in US hotels? > --Brett -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message