On 5/14/02 at 1:43 PM Marck D Pearlstone wrote: |-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |Hash: SHA1 | |Hi MikeM, | |@14 May 2002, 08:24:34 -0400 (13:24 UK time) MikeM wrote in |[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | |> 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.
I agree they can run their business as they choose. But if you didn't know what they pay, you should not have asserted the "huge saving". | |> ... 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. Yes very good news, thanks for the pointers. Maybe the pointers could be put on the web site for others to see and use. That would hae saved me (and apparently others, based upon the few messages I've read so far) some grief. |<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 |wrap lines at (say) column 74. |</moderator> I use this account for many lists, so the | won't change. I apologise in advance to those who see the colour they do not expect. I'll switch the column wrapping. This is the first list whose email readers have noted a problem with the line length of my messages. ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60k FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://bt.ritlabs.com
