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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Server Campers
Date: 4 Dec 1995 21:23:00 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes:

> ] ...  When users connect
> ] with SLIP, some have tendency to camp on the phone line, either
> ] forgetting they dialed in or just hanging out. ...
> 
> Charge them connect time. 8-).

Move to Europe, where the Telco's are charging you for the connect
time. :-]

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)