ATTN SELF-STYLED LIST POLICE (was RE: Mr. Day)

[Thomas Cameron]

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 17:04 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> > If it were all at once, I could see it being prohibitive.  But 150MB
> > over the course of the whole month is still very much do-able on dial-
> > up.  Not pleasant to be sure, but do-able.  I downloaded Slackware back
> > in '95 over dial-up, and it was significantly more than 150 megs.  I
> > didn't like it very much, but there were no show-stoppers in doing it.
> 
> for dial up users around here it certainly *is* a showstopper. they
> wouldnt even dream of doing it. period.

Where is "around here?"  Are you saying that 150 megs over the course of
a whole month is not possible there?  Ouch.

Thomas