On 21 Mar 2001, at 19:57, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> Now, I wonder what this juno.com _is_... and how they possibly could
> get anybody to accept that. Looking at their pages, they look like an
> ISP -- but how could possibly their Internet connection be `free' when
> you're actually _forced_ to keep your computer on at all times, and
> authorize their software to dial up to the Internet... at YOUR cost?
It's absolutely amazing what you can get people to do by using the
magic word FREE. Here in the UK there are a large number of "free"
ISPs who demand that you change to _their_ telephone service and make
a minimum amount of calls per month, or force you to receive
advertising material provided by them & transmitted across the phone
line at your expense, or various other scams.
Just remember, there's no such thing as a FREE lunch.
My guess is that Juno are making a killing on the phone access and
are selling your "spare" CPU cycles to some service or other.
The only advice I can offer to anyone who is tempted by Juno's
generous (whatever the smiley for extreme irony is should be inserted
here) offer is to run Prime95 at a priority of 5 or 6, i.e.
intermediate between "normal" and "screensaver", thereby denying CPU
cycles to their project. Or simply connect using a 386 SX 16 as a
local gateway & let Juno have use of that CPU only :)
Regards
Brian Beesley
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