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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ac.net!news.bconnex.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 08:41:40 -0700 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 34 Message-ID: <31DBE634.65E6@www.play-hookey.com> References: <31D4AA3A.BC0@www.play-hookey.com> <836073421snz@dsl.co.uk> <31D87436.7C7F@www.play-hookey.com> <836295557snz@dsl.co.uk> <Pine.3.91.960702173600.672C-100000@hammerhead.cs.odu.edu> <836393413snz@dsl.co.uk> <31DAAD18.2813@www.play-hookey.com> <836416905snz@nezumi.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Martin Tom Brown wrote: > > In article <31DAAD18.2813@www.play-hookey.com> > kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com "Ken Bigelow" writes: > > > Instead of squawking about tariffs and costs, let's see if we can solve the > > problem using existing conditions and current technology. > > One possibility: does Demon (or other ISPs) limit the size of an > > attachment that can be sent with an e-note? > > No limit on Demon - and they offer a batch ftp service by Email too. > > > If not, here's a very practical way to get those large files. > > My nephew in California (I'm in Maryland) sent me an 8 MB file that way, > > and it worked fine. Would the method fly in the UK? > > Not really unless the data was urgent since you could send disks overnight > by snail mail for 25p and at 28k8 it would cost both users 40p cheap rate > in local BT phone connection charges (unless they were both in Hull). > > The economics are very different for sending and exchanging data > round the world when the flexibility and speed is invaluable. I was talking about transfers from the US to the UK or back -- not locally within the UK. Overnight international mail is a tad more expensive than within one country. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |