[AccessD] Moderator Message

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Wed Aug 5 17:15:08 CDT 2009


You pay  £15 per 5Gb.

I pay  would pay close to £300 for 5Gb.  For £15 I get about 250MB

-- 
Stuart

On 5 Aug 2009 at 19:51, Max Wanadoo wrote:

> William:
> 
> I think that is fair comment. If they are paying to download "our ramblings"
> then they have a reasonable argument.
> 
> AFAIK, dial up costs are much the same as  ever.  On mobile I pay a variable
> £sum for a variable Download per month, eg £15 per 5Gb.  In my case I never
> hit that UNLESS I am reinstalling, updating stuff.  Some people download
> films, etc which shoves their rate up.  Excess charges if you exceed
> agreed/paid rate  is exorbitant and can be £200 for an extra 1Mb.  So stay
> within agreed limits!!!
> 
> Max
> 
> Ps. Sending you come stuff off line.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William Hindman
> Sent: 05 August 2009 19:13
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Moderator Message
> 
> ...it was cost Max ...dial-up users were complaining about non-access 
> material doubling and tripling their bills.
> 
> ...but are per minute charges still the norm in internet dial-up access 
> today?
> 
> William
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Max Wanadoo" <max.wanadoo at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 1:55 PM
> To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" 
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Moderator Message
> 
> > Why is dial up an issue?
> > I am on mobile which  is slower than dial up.  Unless you are referring to
> > costs, in which case dial up probably would be a factor.
> > Whilst holding my hands up to the crime of getting carried away in the OT
> > discussion, I have two points of view.
> >
> > One is that I do enjoy the camaraderie that exists which in turn engenders
> > the spirit of helping and assistance to others and from this aspect I am
> > happy for ANYTHING which is IT related but not for stuff outside of IT - 
> > OT
> > List is the place for that.
> >
> > The second is that if I were a NEWBIE looking to join a well informed list
> 
> > I
> > *might* be put off by all the non-Access chatter.  Particularly as we are
> > without a decent Search Engine for postings.
> >
> > I can see both sides of the fence, so to speak.  Sitting here is putting
> > splinters up my bum.
> >
> > Even when stuff appears to be non-Access, it often exists hand in hand 
> > with
> > Access and other IT software deployment.  A case in point was all the 
> > stuff
> > over Virtual PCs and Security - all of which had a direct and real bearing
> > on my deployment of my Access FE and BE to make it more secure.  The stuff
> > over .Net etc is similarly influencing my Access stuff.
> >
> > Personally, I would say
> >
> > 1. Non-IT goes to OT.
> > 2. Any IT related matters should be allowed because many of them are short
> > lived.  But any Moderator can ask for it to be taken to dba-tech if it 
> > looks
> > like running.  Listers should just honour the request without argument and
> > move it over - as Lambert said, it is so easy to merge email lists at 
> > client
> > level it become almost transparent.
> > 3. Encourage more to join to keep Access which is fore-front in RAD as per
> > Stuart's comment on his web site.
> >
> > Max
> >
> > Enough argument - off to the pub.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bryan 
> > Carbonnell
> > Sent: 05 August 2009 18:27
> > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Moderator Message
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:55 PM, William
> > Hindman<wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com> wrote:
> >
> >> ...as one of those responsible for initially splitting the lists, I
> > remember
> >> that bandwidth was a major driver since so many of our members were still
> > on
> >> dial up ...splitting the lists allowed them to get only the Access 
> >> related
> >> posts without having to dl the rest over 56kb connections.
> >>
> >> ...that is no longer the case
> >
> > Maybe it is the case. Maybe not, I don't know.
> >
> > What I do know is there are still some of our more frequent
> > contributors that are still on dial-up.
> >
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