On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 17:04 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > If it were all at once, I could see it being prohibitive. But 150MB > > over the course of the whole month is still very much do-able on dial- > > up. Not pleasant to be sure, but do-able. I downloaded Slackware back > > in '95 over dial-up, and it was significantly more than 150 megs. I > > didn't like it very much, but there were no show-stoppers in doing it. > > for dial up users around here it certainly *is* a showstopper. they > wouldnt even dream of doing it. period. Where is "around here?" Are you saying that 150 megs over the course of a whole month is not possible there? Ouch. Thomas