From: “James A. Donald” <jamesd@netcom.com>
To: “Timothy C. May” <tcmay@netcom.com>
Message Hash: 68119c033b34f8e6f5f585e07feeebb4ecfa3187136fe6fcbf8e330edb4c7922
Message ID: <Pine.3.89.9501191948.A23853-0100000@netcom10>
Reply To: <199501200054.QAA11075@netcom21.netcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1995-01-20 03:52:47 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 19 Jan 95 19:52:47 PST
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 95 19:52:47 PST
To: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: The Remailer Crisis
In-Reply-To: <199501200054.QAA11075@netcom21.netcom.com>
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On Thu, 19 Jan 1995, Timothy C. May wrote:
> Well, let's do the math. Since the remailer has to be connected at all
> times, of course, this implies $162 a month in connect charges, over
> and above the other charges. Or $187 a month including the line
> charge. Or $2244 a year.
>
> This makes a "cheap Linux box" almost a moot point. This is a lot more
> than I'm willing to pay to run a remailer.
Best.com offers a dedicated 28.8kB line connection to the internet
with $450 setup charge and $60 a month connect charge. This
is a permanent connection, not a dial up connection.
This works out to $720 per year, plus setup charge.
This is as cheap as it gets for a box on the internet.
Now this is OK if one wishes to run linux, and have a
remailer as one hobby in addition to the main use of the
box, but it is still a bit much to pay for a dedicated
remailer.
Now I just do not like linux. Sure it is a great
operating system but it will not run codewright
(Vi causes mental degeneration. Even though I detest,
loath, and hate vi, vi takes up so much brainspace that
I find myself issueing vi commands in editors that I
use much more, and vastly prefer to vi. Vi is evil.)
Therefore there is no way in the world I am going to
waste a full internet connection and a PC on linux.
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