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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, David Lane wrote:

> DSL is site specific,so your right,that won't cut it.Neither would ISDN for
> the same reason.Some sort of dial-up is the only alternative in that
> respect,and since line quality will vary,so will connection and download
> speed.
>   AOL is more than a waste of money,it's a very good way to waste every
> resource your system has as well as making reformatting and installing a
> past-time.

Our friend who still uses it had to get a computer with more space and 
memory because she insisted on using the latest version of AOL and 
Windows.  Within a month XP filled up her hard drive and now my partner 
will be biking out there to put in a larger one for her.  She was happy to 
find that AOL radio now works (with 128MB RAM).  I had Realaudio working 
just fine with several versions ago of AOL on her older computer in 48MB 
RAM.  AOL radio manages to waste a lot more memory somehow.


>   A telephone company ISP is usually the most stable (more modems) but
> James makes the SDF sound pretty good.Could you send me the link to their
> web-page,I'd like to check it out.

sdf.lonestar.org - and if you send them $36 you get 300 MB disk space 
(split between home directory, web space, and mail) and the use of all the 
programs here.  I was able to shrink a 1.1MB photo to 1/20 the size before 
downloading it (djpeg).  And convert WORD files with antiword before 
downloading (or read them online).  Pine or mutt mail.  A friendly 
bulletin board.  Spamassassin.  NetBSD.  I have not yet managed to get the 
up arrow to produce my previous command with the default korn shell.
You can use email before they get your money. Just $1 buys less disk 
space (30MB?).  At my regular bbs we get 1Mx3.

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