Subj : polling
To   : Mvan Le
From : andrew clarke
Date : Mon Apr 16 2007 02:24 am

Sun 2007-04-15 05:14, Mvan Le (1:343/41) wrote to Ryan de Laplante:

 ML> These days most Binkers poll every hour or something.

Here, like most places now, all Fido mail is transferred over the Internet, so 
I have set cron to poll my uplinks every hour.  My uplinks will usually poll me 
when there's mail for me, though.

I imagine a similar situation once occurred (prior to the Internet) where 
"local" phone calls were free in some parts of the world, notably the US, 
although I never found out much about that.  Are they still free?

(In Australian capital cities in the mid 1990s local calls were about 20 cents. 
 Local calls were untimed, with a radius of about 50 km.)

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