Hey everyone,
I've been reading this thread with interest, and have some comments to
make:
1) I don't see what's so bad about Telstra BigPond ADSL. It's nice and
quick (for me), I've had no problems, apart from when their Sydney
access server died, which kicked everyone off and locked their
accounts. I haven't had any problems sending email, receiving email,
surfing the Internet, IRC'ing and stuffing around generally. When I
connect to the Internet I know that (a) I may get 55K/sec to
mirror.aarnet one night and 15K/sec the next night - the vagaries of the
Internet, and (b) that shit happens, I don't have a defined SLA with
which to bash Telstra about the head with when things go wrong, and that
(c) the Internet is unreliable anyway, so I live with it, and work
around it.
2) for those people who have yet to read the email etiquette guide,
please do so. I am sick and tired of downloading emails where someone
makes two lines of comments, and then includes 60+ lines of original
message below it (including the slug footer and the original message
that that person was replying to).
If it's not an essential part of the email, remove the lines. Some
people (myself not included thank god) are volume charged for their
email and it costs them.
I've had my bitch, I'll go back to lurk mode now *smiles*
Cheers,
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