On 29 Mar 00 at 21:17, Kali McLaughlin wrote:
>>Just a query about Freenet -why the interest in it?
>>I am very naive apparently, but the problem here is the dialcharges, not the
>>ISP. The ruling imperative in Australia isto get an ISP within local call
>>charge range - all other issues are very secondary ( except downtime :-(
>>Also, I have had no trouble getting into any Australian ISPs with Arachne,
>>and I have used seven, (to avoidlong distance call charges when travelling)
AFAIK, all other free ISP here in USA require Win9x/IE/Netscape
(or Mac with similar configuration) and supplementary proprietary
software that works in conjunction with the browser to display
advertisements and also (I think this part is correct) enforce the
requirement that you not disable the ads by notifying the ISP if you
do this, thus putting you in violation of the terms of service (TOS)
and jeopardizing your access to the service. I do not know how things
work in Oz as far as local dialing charges, but here local calls are
unlimited and unmetered. Thus with the combination of FreeWWWeb and a
local dialup number a non-Win9x/Mac user can have free internet
access.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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