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- From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
- Subject: Re: Free Internet/Usenet Access (was Re: Modem Madness)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.164428.1588@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1251wwcp503@cybrspc.uucp>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 16:44:28 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <1251wwcp503@cybrspc.uucp> cybrspc!wwiv!1-6250@cs.umn.edu (Zaphod Beeblebrox #1 @6250) writes:
- >In a msg posted Fri Nov 13 19:27:21 1992, wonge#fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong) #18
- >31 @503 writes:
- >
- >> Whoa..that's pretty harsh.. $1830/month? Well if the connection with
- >> InterNet is so friggin(pardon the expression) expensive(to an Undergraduate
- >> with NO job), why have I been reading News mail and hearing some sites are
- >> OFFERING FREE, get it FREE! InterNet service??!! Is there some sort of
- >> catch or am I just in some different dimension when I read those particular
- >> news messages?
- >
- >tfsquad.mn.org (and most -- if not all -- other PC-based usenet sites) do not
- >actually offer "internet," per se. We're not directly connected, which means
- >that you can't telnet, ftp, talk, irc, finger, or any of the other
- >inter-machine tricks that you can do on a "directly connected" site.
- >
- >We do offer news and mail, though, just like any other site. It's just slower,
- >is all.
-
- Ohhh.. I see.. But still... you need to pay the cost of the messages on
- a monthly basis, no?
-
- >It's Monday morning. Do you know where your Brain is?0
-
- I wish I do....
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