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HWB... you are right - modem calls have different holding time patterns. however, samples of large modem pools don't (yet) show them to be many hours long. (about 4x a normal phone call if I correctly remember the last numbers I saw) but if they are really concerned about holding times, howcum they price "teen phones" even cheaper than ordinary??? those lines certainly don't exhibit classic 1MB distributions (and those don't exhibit them anymore, either). no, they have simply identified someone whom they think has no alternative to just bleeding more. Ah, the perks of the monarchy. -mo
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