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Hi Judith you wrote... > >43.7% pay for some or all of their access to list messages - please bear > >this in mind when sending messages to the list! No long quotes, no > >personal messages, please. > > I'm not sure how to interpret this. > I pay for internet access: a flat rate for 200 hours per month. > However, there is no per-hour charge for long-distance phone or > other usage. Sorry. There is UK angle on this issue. We often have guaranteed numbers of hours (Personally, I have very cheap unlimited access at home through Demon). However, we do pay for all our local telephone calls on a second by second basis, which means that long download times tend to cause great annoyance here (especially for people with slow hardware). I have a very fast machine at home and it doesn't really bother me that much. In reality, we're talking about very small amounts of money but the principle gets people's back up much more here than it does in North America, where local calls are usually free. Hope that explains Best Wishes Mark Priestley Disability Research Unit University of Leeds LEEDS LS2 9JT UK Tel: +44 113 2334417/2334418 Fax: +44 113 2334415 E-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.leeds.ac.uk/sociology/dru/dru.htm %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%