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Date:      Mon, 21 Dec 1998 19:45:03 -0500
From:      Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>
To:        marko@uk.radan.com, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cool, A White Snowy Christmas in Sunnyvale, California 8)
Message-ID:  <4.1.19981221194415.00914a80@genesis.ispace.com>
In-Reply-To: <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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At 08:50 PM 12/21/98 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote:
>
>
>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?

Sure, it is that way here.. Depending on where you go you can easily get
screwed into things.  Especially in places that are backed by a corporate
butt-kiss from like AT&T or Sprint, or something like that.


---
Drew "Droobie" Baxter
Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM)
OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA
http://www.droo.orland.me.us

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