Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:15:37
Message-Id: 48CF2492.6020902@bellsouth.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts. by Iain Buchanan
1 Iain Buchanan wrote:
2 > Dale wrote:
3 >> Iain Buchanan wrote:
4 >
5 >>> Are they monthly charges? Wow, that's about $150 per year. With those
6 >>> savings you could afford a domain and someone to host it! If you don't
7 >>> want a full blown web host, many places will just store your email and
8 >>> manage the dns for you. Then you could have
9 >>> dale@×××××××××××××××××××.com as your email address!
10 >>>
11 >>
12 >>
13 >> I have thought of having my own site and stuff but being on dial-up just
14 >> takes ALL the fun out of it. The dial-up out here sucks even on dial-up
15 >> standards. I get 24Kb which is about 3KBs/sec.
16 >
17 > you don't need to have your own site just to have a domain name and an
18 > email address...
19 >
20
21
22 True, if I was going to do all that tho, may as well go all the way.
23 ;-) I also like to keep it simple. Simple is good for me most days.
24
25 Dale
26
27 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts. Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>