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Re: Use //c to show ftp weather from Bureau of Meteorology
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Osgeld wrote:
I dont know that you are or are not getting kickback, here is my
thought when I saw it
You never asked, you just assumed.
It's a local (to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) freenet established in
1994 and is a non-profit, official charity. It provides free accounts to
needy folks (and local interest groups) who can't afford internet any
other way and cheap accounts to those can afford a little. It's
vt100-compliant so it's totally 100% compatible with legacy systems like
the II. In these days of 'everything needing javascript, flash,
dynamically-created pages, cookies, scripts etc', it's sort-of nice to
find that 'best-kept-little-secret' that still exists, if you know where
to look. (Even their full PPP graphic service is only $125 a year.)
"hey I have an apple connected to a pc"
These aren't my words. I don't have an Apple connected to a PC; never
did, never will.
first solution, get a long distance plan and check out this service
(continues with a newspaper ad) your just missing an 800 number and a
sales rep contact
I've mentioned this freenet before on csa2 and numerous users have
taken advantage of it because it's a throwback to a simpler time.
its not my fault you didnt bother to keep up with the internet and the
only solution you have is to have someone provide you a service,
mostly what you get already on your pc and you just have to pipe it
over a serial port
II's don't connect to modern internet all that easily and this allows
you to connect via a service that has allowed some of the past to remain
current. The freenet volunteer board of directors wanted, on numerous
occasions, to scrap legacy support but I fought (on behalf on legacy users
everywhere) to request that they keep supporting the legacy systems for as
long as financially feasibly possible.
whatever, sorry I posted to the op yes you need to spend 24$ a month
and get a special long distance plan just to receive a text file and
display it
It's $24 a year not a month. That's why it's such a great bargain.
Where else can you find a full internet package (not just displaying a
text file but an actual internet connection) for $2 a month? It may cost
a little more for phone package from your local provider but with phone
competition so rampant, there must be some real deals out there to allow
unlimited long distance at bargain basement prices.