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Originally posted by homealone
If I remember right the cut-off for free ntl dialup was 4 minutes - one of the changes when they started charging was the increase to 15 minutes?
It takes me ages to type replies to messages - trying to do it on-line in less than 4 minutes was a real pain!:p
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My last ISP before I went with NTL had a 10 min idle time.
There are many ways round this - the worst ones to use are the tools that keep alive by pinging, these are usually detected (or they were on the ISP I had).
Best do what others do - set your mail client to probe the mailservers every so often.