Subj : Re: Netmail Outside Zone 21
To   : deurbroucq
From : bcw142
Date : Tue Mar 09 2021 11:20:17

On 09 Mar 2021, deurbroucq said the following...
 
 de> All my pings outside zone 21 went through. The pongs came back almost 6.5
 de> hours later.
 de> 
 de> In the 90s, my friend was in Antarctica. He used to send email with no
 de> spaces and punctuation because it cost almost $1 a character to send it
 de> via satelite. Sometimes it would take days to receive email due to
 de> weather, etc.

I take it satellite was the only way to get through at all. Luckily I don't 
know anyone with that issue. My cousins were in Japan for 5 years and could
be reached by various slow methods ;) we were already paying a fixed amount 
for the 'slow' methods monthly so it wasn't costing anything like that.
When i had UUCP I also had sip via a shell account, before that it was 
all dial up (which was setup through Win95/98/Linux to dial out automatically
when a connection was called up). There was only a few years when I dialed 
out via modem myself. Generally I had the modems in the basement and turned
down a bit, unlike other that kept them in their rooms on max. volume (atv3). 

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