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["Eric S. Emerson" <wildrice5@xxxxxxxx>]

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Hi Gregory P.,
                             You said it !! ... But...
your talking to a difrerent generation. <ggg> <:-)

Eric

On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:05:56 +0000 "Gregory Parks"
<falco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> 
> On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:39:50 -0500, Jason Dodd wrote:
> 
> > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> 
> > I was joking.
> 
> > But it's relative.  I, too, didn't think I needed a high speed 
> account.
> > But when I factored in the fact that a dial up account meant I had 
> to
> > have a phone line, high is coming down in price, etc.  It all 
> added up
> > to dial up not being fiscally justifiable any more.  Then when I 
> tried
> > high speed, that fact just got even more true.  The time savings 
> in just
> > webrowsing alone is convincing enough IMO.  Add to that the 
> savings when
> > you actually dl files and it's most definitely not economically 
> sound in
> > my neck of the woods to keep dial up.
> 
> My dialup is about 5$ per month and my basic telephone service is 
> under
> 30$
> 
> > High Speed worth it?  Best $35 a month I've ever spent.  The phone 
> bill
> > plus dial up bill is more expensive here even so it costs me less 
> than
> > dial up.
> 
> If I were doing major league downloading on a regular a high speed
> connection would be worth it or if the costs got down to under 
> 10$/mo.
>  
> > But, you're right.  There is no NEED for high speed.  In fact, we 
> don't
> > NEED computers at all for that matter.
> 
> but how would we keep the dust off our desks? ;->
> 
> have fun

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