winston19842005 wrote:
I have all pop ups blocked with the exception of a few sites that are needed for things like my online banking, Firefox does a very good job.On 9/18/08 12:47 PM, in article 4tGdnRzD8cdoGE_VnZ2dnUVZ_vjinZ2d@comcast.com, "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:"Steven Lichter" <diespammers@ikillspammers.com> wrote in message news:eXtAk.587$D32.0@flpi146.ffdc.sbc.com...Bill Garber wrote:"Greg Buchner" <null@none.invalid> wrote in message null-59E463.07251418092008@newsgroups.comcast.net">news:null-59E463.07251418092008@newsgroups.comcast.net...In article <6b62270b-b0f2-4069-a50b-6fef80dafb67@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,willy46pa <garberstreet@gmail.com> wrote:On Sep 17, 8:23 am, Greg Buchner <n...@none.invalid> wrote:In article <XP_zk.616$Ws1...@nlpi064.nbdc.sbc.com>, Steven Lichter <diespamm...@ikillspammers.com> wrote:Greg Buchner wrote:Comcast (hereafter referred to as Com$haft) is dropping allnewsgroupaccess as of 10/25/2008. New customers who sign up now will not be able to access it all. You can still do a 3rd party news server. http://www.comcast.net/newsgroups/ Figured I'd post this being that I know there's some people whouseCom$haft. GregThey are going to reduce the monthly fee, or are they going toraise itbecause they are giving you less service? They also charge extra if you D/L to right?Being that Com$haft is a typical cable company, I'd figure on them raising rates. They never go down, just up, even when you get less. And I imagine they'd like to charge extra if you download. GregWhen you say download, I assume you mean conspicuous download, because, all the Internet is, is downloading, with an occassional upload in between.No, I assume they'd like to charge for all downloads. Sort of like my electric bill. I pay some base fees/charges, then everything else is billed via how much I use. It probably won't happen, but I'm sure they'd like that. GregI am sure, too, but it would cause them more problems than it's worth trying to legally prove how much we actually 'did' download each month. Unlike electric, which uses a meter to show our actual usage. ;-) Sure it does. 8=O Bill Garber from GS-Electronics http://www.garberstreet.com "If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered." (Edgar Allen Poe)It is very simple to tell your usage, the system records any usage when you are logged onto the server, just like a meter on your other utilities i, much like your minutes on yout phone. -- The Only Good Spammer is a Dead one!! Have you hunted one down today? (c) 2008 I Kill Spammers, Inc. A Rot In Hell Co.Oh great!, and they would probably measure it by megabyte, so, one byte over a full megabyte and they charge you for the next full megabyte. :-(Hmm - this could get really nasty! For example, is it your fault if your carrier starts to give some disreputable web sites a little incentive to include huge images on their web pages to boost your download (both in megabytes and in megabytes per some quantity, be it time or by page fetch)? Having to pay more because of the increase in bandwidth you use because some sites are funded by ads (either partially or whole), so you wind up paying Com$haft in the end?
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