Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 08:37:07 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cool, A White Snowy Christmas in Sunnyvale, California 8) Message-ID: <367E08B3.DF798154@uk.radan.com> 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>
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Brett Glass wrote: > > At 09:34 PM 12/20/98 -0500, Drew Baxter wrote: > > >Do you pay per-minute charges for local calls? friend of mine when he lived > >in England it was like that.. I couldn't even imagine paying for my net > >time like that. > > In England, they have a SPECIAL AREA CODE with a high per-minute rate for > nationwide services such as CompuServe. And there's NO flat rate, anywhere. > 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. The high per miunte rate is used for phone-in competitions on TV and in magazines and "chat-lines". > --Brett > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- 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. Bath, Avon, England. 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
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