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. > > > > > > -- > > AccessD mailing list > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >