Cost of bandwidth (was: Re: ATTN SELF-STYLED...)

[Jeff Kinz]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 05:04:14PM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> For you, $30 is a nice dinner. 
> For a sizable chunk of the human race, $30 is a week's pay.
> 
> Never forget, you are one unique and valuable part of the world. But
> that does not mean that the entire world is like you or has some of the
> luxuries you do, and the repeated proposal that "bandwidth is cheap" is
> patently false, horribly parochial, and utterly ridiculous in MOST of
> that world.

Thank you, Rodolfo, for saying that so well.  I hope it sinks in to the 
newbies. As Spaf once said, "its always September on Usenet."

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