From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 6 21:32:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE3F37B416 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 21:32:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-65.58.45.36.dial1.chicago1.level3.net ([65.58.45.36] helo=there) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16iqVp-00076U-00; Wed, 06 Mar 2002 21:32:22 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bob Giesen To: "jamgill@uu.net" , Alain LIEFOOGHE Subject: Re: Packages (Free Telecommunications) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 23:32:05 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 05 March 2002 01:35 pm, jamgill@UU.NET wrote: > Thanks for the rant. If there was a question in there, it has been > answered in the archives of this list. > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Alain LIEFOOGHE wrote: > > I do not want to hurt any one of you with this "coup de gueule", > > but remember that in france the local telecommunications are not > > free and uses the ports is expensive. > > Where in the world are the telecommunications free? Am I missing > something? For a nickel, I dial up my ISP (a local phone number) and stay online for as long as I like. It's not free, but it's pretty darn close. Mr. Liefooghe, I presume, is paying time-based fees. -- "Failure to prepare is preparing to fail." -- John Wooden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message