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Hi MikeM,

@14 May 2002, 08:24:34 -0400 (13:24 UK time) MikeM wrote in
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> I'd be interested in seeing some number to back up the assertion of
> a "huge saving".

Then look in the TBBETA archive.

> The going rate is about US$3.00 per gigabyte of bandwidth per month.

That's in the US. Not in Moldova. I don't know what they pay, only
that they consider the savings to be significant. It's their right to
run their business how they think it best.

> ... How does that compare to making customers pay US$39 for a copy
> of rar that they otherwise neither need nor want?

Nobody has had to do that. Search the archives. You'll find at least 3
freeware alternatives. I primarily downloaded the unrar32 offered by
the RAR authors, a freeware unpacker. Now I use UltimateZip, a superb
all-round freeware tool that includes the newest RAR format. Someone
just mentioned that the stuffit site also offers free RAR extractors.

So, for no extra cost to anyone here, RITlabs can lesson their
overheads and development costs. Good news all round I reckon.

<moderator>
When writing to this list, please modify your quote prefix to follow
the accepted standard since the main software in use on this list does
quote coloration as long as a '>' is used as the prefix.

Also, it would help legibility if you would set your Calypso client to
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Cheers -- .\\arck D. Pearlstone -- List moderator
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