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From:Neil Bothwick
Date:30 Oct 2000 at 08:26:05
Subject:Re: Mobile Surfing

Andy Wanless said,

> On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, David Arbuthnot wrote:
>>
>> I'm thinking about using a mobile phone to surf the net but where do i
>> start???

> Given the amusing incident back in Janury involving a pub in
> Reading, the words "where are Bill'n'Fleecy", "I'll just check to see if
> they've emailed me", a trip to the bank to get some money, walking back to
> the pub, finding they were still nowhere near downloading just the
> headers, and the eventually "let's just go and get a curry and hope
> they're there", I'd say avoid mobile phones ;)

It wasn't quite as lsow as you make out, and we were able to read the
incoming headers during the download. But 9600 is no way to access a
mailbox with over 500 mails, especially with the tendency to line drops
when you reach about 450 :(

Neil



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