[Air-l] Re: overcharging internet

[Adrian Miles]

At 12:01 -0400 18/10/02, air-l-request at aoir.org wrote:
>So lesson is clear files from browsers and force a cold boot from 
>public/commercial terminals when you are finished using.

sorry. the lesson is to realise that the rest of the world subsidises 
US access costs to the internet (due to inequities in how costs are 
charged via the ITU), and that when you are a guest in another 
country you are a guest in another country. my experience of the 
dutch during AoIR was of overwhelming politeness, interest, curiosity 
and courtesy (it is the only country i have visited so far where 
nearly every commercial (restaurant. hotel, taxi) conversation began 
with "where have you come from?" and they really wanted to know.


cheers
adrian miles
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