in article RdIgg.7601$rC1.7522@newsfe4-gui.ntli.net, jw 1111 at
blue.star77@REMOOVEvirgin.net wrote on 6/5/06 6:26 AM:

> 
> "CL" <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:e5vfsr$bc6$1@nnrp.gol.com...
>> jw 1111 wrote:
>> 
>>> hi,    in the u.k.  we have pay as you go internet servers.  like the
>>> dial up option in virgin and freeserve.  your time on line is charged by
>>> the minute and is added to your regular phone provider phone bill.  the
>>> advantage is no monthly fees, and its quick and easy to get on line.   Is
>>> there any similar dial up arrangement in Japan?
>> 
>> Pay per minute of use?  How wonderfully last century.  Why would you
>> demand to pay several times more per minute of use than you'd get from a
>> flat fee connection?  They _may_ exist, but why?
>> 
>> Before you even waste your time on this, maybe you should say what your
>> situation is -- visiting for a short term, living here, trying to make a
>> budget so you can move here?  If you are visiting, just spend enough for a
>> hotel room that has a LAN connection.  They're not much more than a hostel
>> room, if at all.  You can use web based mail servers and just read your
>> mail off the free PC in some hotel lobbies and at internet cafes.  There's
>> also inexpensive WiFi ...
>> CL
> 
> how wonderfully last century........what a total yawn you are, with such
> gratuitious comments.
> 
> you ask why?   it shows your mind is moving so fast and in such a random
> fashion (too much time in japan? ) that you totally miss the point.
> 
> the fact is, that this is what is required under the circumstances.  in the
> english school system emphasis is placed on answering the question not
> rabbiting off,  like you have no-one else in the whole wide world to talk
> to.....sigh 

Wow, how 1980s... What next, a gratuitous comment about how what is needed
in the transportation arena is this "new" mode of transportation, the horse.

The pay per minute system was what we had in the early days of the Internet,
but providers like the Source and CompuServe. Technology and business models
have definitely improved since then.