[LMB] Reality Check/Survey Question (was Re: HTML and e-mail)

[ANDREW BARTON]

Scott Raun <sraun at fireopal.org>:
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:01:21PM +0000, John Campbell Rees wrote:
> b) you paid for your internet connection at a penny/minute for time
> connected.

> I sawy the pizza call - but I'd like to do a sanity check here.  Tthe
last time I knew, we still had participants (in Europe, IIRC) that
were paying for connectivity by the minute.  That was some years ago -
2-4, maybe 6?  If that is no longer the case, then _some_ of the basic
assumptions that we used when we generated certain list policies may
need to be reassessed(sp?). <

> Is this still the case?  Is anyone still reading the list who has to
pay for their connectivity on a per-minute basis? <
   
  Maybe not.  But I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one who reads the list in digest format.
   
  That means that when people post messages that appear in garbled format, or when they make long and unneeded quotes of the message they're replying to, it makes it much harder for me to read not only their messages but also any of the others contained in the same digest.
   
  This is not because anything about my system is old fashioned or non-standard.  I'm on broadband and I'm using up-to-date IE-based email software.
   
  As it happens, most of the lists I use are on Yahoo Groups.  I find those lists easier to read and reply to than this one.
   
  Andrew