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Message from discussion Reason to NOT install from online repositories

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From: John Hasler <jhas...@newsguy.com>
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Subject: Re: Reason to NOT install from online repositories
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:00:03 +0200
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Stan Hoeppner writes:
> You must be using a totally free dialup service for daily internet
> access.  In many/most US locales dial is as expensive, if not more
> expensive, than aDSL or cable...

In many it is much cheaper (here, for example).  In some broadband is
not available at all.
-- 
John Hasler


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