[geeks] News server access

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:07:55AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> because you have to hold the connection up from your end all the time -
> expensive.  I know that *some* ISPs will bring it up from their end if
> necessary, but then you have two problems:
>   call setup charges are often of the order of several $small_currency_units,
>     and so many very short calls will be *more* expensive than holding the
>     line up all the time (BTDTPaidThePhoneBill);
>   call setup is slow, so users get a bad experience from your site

That is, *if* you live somewhere where the calls are metered.  I guess I"m
just lucky to live in SWBT land.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX