Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In your other equally elitist condescending post you mentioned you pay $3 per hour for connect time. I was online for 270 hours last month. That works out to almost $10,000 per year. How may LUGers want to pay $10,000 per year to read a bunch of longwinded crap about fountain pens and wrist watches on a Leica mailing list? Lets take a vote. Dan C. At 09:05 PM 13-06-99 +0400, you wrote: >Dan Cardish wrote: > >> It may be that some people actually do pay to be on the list, in terms >> of >> connection time. So for them, it is costly to download endless >> streams of >> emails about fountain pens, when all they are really expecting is some >> news >> and info on Leicas. >> >> A friend of mine works in the engine room on board a container ship at >> sea. >> She can email me from the ship, but she warned me when replying to >> delete >> her old message and to keep the message short, because of the costs >> involved. Subscribing to the LUG would not be a good idea for her, >> even >> though she is a budding photographer. ;-) > >This makes as much sense as saying that is unfair that someone can't >afford a Leica, or a Ferrari, or a Rolex. When you're financially ready >to subscribe to the LUG, do so. Until that moment, do without and learn >to cope with that. > >Bernard > > > >> Dan C. >> >> At 11:33 PM 13-06-99 +1000, you wrote: >> > >> >You make it sound like you have to pay to be on this list. You >> don't. Its >> for >> >free, and so is the conversation and so are the topics. >> > >> >Regards, Horst Schmidt >> > > > The other post: > >> Well, I have a time unlimited fixed cost Internet account from a local > dialup that costs me nothing, so it makes no difference to me. But I > have heard complaints from European Internet users who have to pay for > their phone line connection. I pay 3$ per hour for my connection. If I complain then it's not for financial reasons. In fact, I'd like to see some more of that beautiful HTML that Usenet calls a waste of bandwidth; it's so much more expressive than ascii. > I guess people on this list who have trouble deciding what colour ink > to put in their $1,000 pens don't worry about these things, but some > people do. If you can't afford a good restaurant, don't go there. If you do go there, don't complain about the price.