| Re: learning Unix, was progress in e-mail, such as AOL [message #353573] |
Thu, 28 September 2017 05:20  |
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Originally posted by: Tim Streater
In article <f33rv6Fek42U2@mid.individual.net>, Huge
<Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> On 2017-09-28, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 18:11:50 +0100
>> Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
>>
>>> In article <02d39e3c-83b0-4b6d-a32c-3f39829db974@googlegroups.com>,
>>> <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> _Personally_, I hate using my cellphone and much prefer to make calls
>>>> on a real landline. But it is clear that the rest of the world
>>>> sees it otherwise, and much prefer their cellphones. They've let their
>>>> landlines go. Now the phonecos want to kill off landlines altogether.
>>>
>>> Not here they don't. In any case, how else would I get broadband
>>> service?
>>
>> I have no landline but I have 70/6 broadband courtesy of a little
>> unit on the roof talking LTE to a tower several miles away.
>
> It is entirely possible to rent a "broadband only" pair that provides
> no telephone service. You just need to go to a decent ISP.
Is such a line cheaper, in fact? And how does it differ from a line
that used to have BT phone service on it, but now doesn't because the
ISP provides a phone/broadband package?
--
When it becomes serious, you have to lie.
Jean-Claude Juncker, Reuters 31st May 2013.
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| Re: learning Unix, was progress in e-mail, such as AOL [message #353578 is a reply to message #353573] |
Thu, 28 September 2017 06:09  |
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Originally posted by: Bob Eager
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 10:20:47 +0100, Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <f33rv6Fek42U2@mid.individual.net>, Huge
> <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 2017-09-28, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 18:11:50 +0100 Tim Streater
>>> <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article <02d39e3c-83b0-4b6d-a32c-3f39829db974@googlegroups.com>,
>>>> <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> >_Personally_, I hate using my cellphone and much prefer to make
>>>> >calls on a real landline. But it is clear that the rest of the
>>>> >world sees it otherwise, and much prefer their cellphones. They've
>>>> >let their landlines go. Now the phonecos want to kill off landlines
>>>> >altogether.
>>>>
>>>> Not here they don't. In any case, how else would I get broadband
>>>> service?
>>>
>>> I have no landline but I have 70/6 broadband courtesy of a little
>>> unit on the roof talking LTE to a tower several miles away.
>>
>> It is entirely possible to rent a "broadband only" pair that provides no
>> telephone service. You just need to go to a decent ISP.
>
> Is such a line cheaper, in fact? And how does it differ from a line that
> used to have BT phone service on it, but now doesn't because the ISP
> provides a phone/broadband package?
£12 pcm, which is cheaper. No calls in or out.
--
Using UNIX since v6 (1975)...
Use the BIG mirror service in the UK:
http://www.mirrorservice.org
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| Re: learning Unix, was progress in e-mail, such as AOL [message #353579 is a reply to message #353573] |
Thu, 28 September 2017 06:12 |
mausg
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On 2017-09-28, Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
> In article <f33rv6Fek42U2@mid.individual.net>, Huge
> <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 2017-09-28, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 18:11:50 +0100
>>> Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article <02d39e3c-83b0-4b6d-a32c-3f39829db974@googlegroups.com>,
>>>> <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> >_Personally_, I hate using my cellphone and much prefer to make calls
>>>> >on a real landline. But it is clear that the rest of the world
>>>> >sees it otherwise, and much prefer their cellphones. They've let their
>>>> >landlines go. Now the phonecos want to kill off landlines altogether.
>>>>
>>>> Not here they don't. In any case, how else would I get broadband
>>>> service?
>>>
>>> I have no landline but I have 70/6 broadband courtesy of a little
>>> unit on the roof talking LTE to a tower several miles away.
>>
>> It is entirely possible to rent a "broadband only" pair that provides
>> no telephone service. You just need to go to a decent ISP.
>
> Is such a line cheaper, in fact? And how does it differ from a line
> that used to have BT phone service on it, but now doesn't because the
> ISP provides a phone/broadband package?
>
Probably not relevent to the above, but I abandoned land line years
ago, and now have just broadband from EIR, pretty expensive (45.01
per month), but reliable. Land line was constant annoying spam.
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greymaus.ireland.ie
Just_Another_Grumpy_Old_Man
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| Re: learning Unix, was progress in e-mail, such as AOL [message #353586 is a reply to message #353573] |
Thu, 28 September 2017 09:46 |
Charles Richmond
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On 9/28/2017 4:20 AM, Tim Streater wrote:
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>
> When it becomes serious, you have to lie.
>
> Jean-Claude Juncker, Reuters 31st May 2013.
"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know
that you would lie if you were in his place."
-- H. L. Mencken
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numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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