watson@ames.arc.nasa.gov (John S. Watson) (12/13/88)
[eat me!] In Article 1025 <18109@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) writes: > Are you sure that this is the format NeXT voice mail is transmitted > over the net? I grabbed that file, and it was HUGE. > At 8 kbytes/second of voice, I am not sure if anyone can tolerate > the traffic. > > A lot of foreign e-mail addressees pay $$$ per kilobyte of > messages RECEIVED and transmitted. I think Japanese users pay > something like $1.00/kilobyte. That comes to $8/second! This is how the US is going to balance the trade deficit from now on. :-) -- John S. Watson, Civil Servent from Hell ARPA: watson@ames.arc.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center UUCP: ...!ames!watson Any opinions expressed herein are, like, solely the responsibility of the, like, author and do not, like, represent the opinions of NASA or the U.S. Government.