UKNM: a few random thoughts from a lurker

[Rod Begbie]

> Actually, the thing that winds me up about all this unmetered baloney is

> that access may be unmetered in the US but it's not free - subscribers pay

> fairly large monthly rentals for the privelege of unmetered local calls

> (and for Universal Service Provision).


Nonsense.  I pay $9 a month for rental -- $27 a quarter is less than BT.

And my international calls back to the UK are 9c a minute, 24 hours, which

is cheaper than it used to be to call long distance in the UK at peak rates!


(And I'll refrain from mentioning the $40-a-month I pay for my 300kbps cable

modem.  That would just be cruel).


Regarding page3.com -- I seem to remember page3.co.uk existing many years

ago, run by the people at god.co.uk, which I'm surprised to see still exists

(as does x-stream.com!  bloddy heck -- what sort of mug would sign up with

them now.)


Hello Mr Pandini.


Amazon.com are not in the business of selling books -- they are in the

business of gathering personal information.  Discuss.  (See also

AllAdvantage.com -- Selling advertising *and* getting stats on what websites

people visit -- seems like a winner)


rOD.

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