[time-nuts] Datum Handbook of Time Code Formats

[GandalfG8 at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/03/2011 04:03:09 GMT Standard Time, bill at iaxs.net  
writes:

Wizard, they want my name and email address. That can be sold to  anybody
to use on their mailing list of pushy offers. They offer a service  that
I do not want.
 
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Hi Bill

I'm sorry to hear you continued to have problems and  do not know quite 
where you ended up.

As others have pointed out,  Rapidshare, along with all the other so called 
"free" file hosting sites do  their best to persuade downloaders to use 
their paid services. Rapidshare and  most others do this by imposing time 
delays for single downloads and increasing  time penalties for multiple 
downloads. Some go further and seem to randomly lock  out downloaders claiming 
they've failed too many "capthchas" or whatever, again  intended to cause enough 
irritatiation that potential users just pay and be done  with it.

It's not ideal but I've been a paid account holder  with Rapidshare for 
several years, they remain better than many who've come  since, and I stick 
with them because they also remain quite tolerant of our  flakey broadband 
connection for large uploads. I always request that downloaders  spread the 
information to more user friendly sites such as Didier's excellent  manual 
archive at _www.ko4bb.com_ (http://www.ko4bb.com) .
 
Rapidshare's business is file hosting and I don't suppose they're  
particularly interesting in harvesting your personal details nor whether or  not 
your use of IE6 would make much difference. I find Firefox to be much  more 
user friendly so use that these days, but obviously it's your decision as  to 
what you use and what sites you choose to avoid.
 
Unfortunately the file is too big to email or I'd just send you a copy but  
I've checked Rapidshare and there's been 75 downloads so hopefully by  now 
a copy will have been made available for you by another downloader.
 
regards
 
Nigel
GM8PZR