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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!netnews.nwnet.net!symiserver2.symantec.com!usenet From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages Date: 4 Jul 1996 10:48:40 GMT Organization: Symantec Corporation Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4rg7i8$539@symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <31D4AA3A.BC0@www.play-hookey.com> <836073421snz@dsl.co.uk> <31D87436.7C7F@www.play-hookey.com> <836289820snz@mynx.demon.co.uk> <4rb5ne$5eq@avondale.demon.co.uk> <4rcrhe$ds@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: tedm%toybox@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.6.34.3 X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 In <4rcrhe$ds@anorak.coverform.lan>, brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) writes: >John F Hall (jfhall@avondale.demon.co.uk) wrote: >: There were a limited number of out of area lines in Hull that connected > >Ahh, these people really needed smart software - then they could have >kept their "good thing" going. Take a look at ijppp on FreeBSD (or some Of course, there is nothing like a little financial pain to prod people into doing the right thing that should have been done in the first place. It seems to me that this would create a market for some enterprising ISP operating in the Hull area who would resell Demon's service. Of course, you would need to get somebody in there who wasn't afraid of twitting people on for long periods of time with no discernable packet traffic. ;-)