Subj : polling
To   : Andrew Clarke
From : Mvan Le
Date : Sun Apr 15 2007 09:10 am

ac> I imagine a similar situation once occurred (prior to
ac> the Internet) where "local" phone calls were free in
ac> some parts of the world, notably the US, although I
ac> never found out much about that.  Are they still free?

Dunno. I have a hard time believing in free anything, but if some fool offers
I'll take it all :)

ac> (In Australian capital cities in the mid 1990s local
ac> calls were about 20 cents.  Local calls were untimed,
ac> with a radius of about 50 km.)

I heard they sent 1000 faxes of some guy's arse to Telstra in protest when they
proposed to hike charges on SysOps specifically.


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