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Old 13-07-2003, 23:16   #18
hawkmoon
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Originally posted by Robert Dark
Hi Pete and thanks for the welcome.

The idle time doesn't give me too many problems; if I'm online I'm usually doing something so it's rarely idle.
It just seems like such a penny-pinching thing to burden people with.
It isn't really a penny pinching move. It is a move to free up the the modem pools so that other users can dial-in and get connection on a contended service. If every dial-up user never disconnected the no-one else would be able to connect. Most dial-up ISP's have taken the view that if you are idle for 10-15 mins then you are no longer utilizing the connection which someone else could.
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