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Date:      Mon, 21 Dec 1998 20:50:02 +0000
From:      Mark Ovens <markov@globalnet.co.uk>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cool, A White Snowy Christmas in Sunnyvale, California 8)
Message-ID:  <367EB47A.526E7B65@globalnet.co.uk>
References:  <19981220235019.A6362@keltia.freenix.fr> <4.1.19981220152518.00ac53d0@genesis.ispace.com> <Your <4.1.19981220151248.00ac5c60@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>

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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



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