Hello Timothy, I have done this in the past for people and I would be =20= willing to continue to do so. As I am on dialup at home and =20 definitely understand about the slow downloads plus other people =20 needing/wanting to use the phone while you're online. Thanks, Anthony Bailey ----------- this is coming to you from Anthony Bailey =F0 (abailey at semo.edu) Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri 63701 On Oct 31, 2005, at 7:49 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote: > > One of the things I admire about the Linux/FreeBSD camp is their =20 > enthusiasm to help other users, esp. those who do not have high =20 > speed internet access. > > I'd like to think that we Mac users would do no less. > > As the 105.5 megabytes of the combo updater for 10.4.3 download to =20 > my computer at 159 KB/s, I'm well aware that there are folks out =20 > there for whom 5 KB/s is the max they are likely to see on their =20 > dialup accounts, and a file this big may simply not be possible to =20 > download. > > I'd be willing to help out a few folks on dialup, and presume there =20= > are some others who would be willing to as well. CD-R media is =20 > cheap and postage, well I suspect the whole thing would top out at =20 > about $2/$3 per CD. > > I'm hoping that others will step forward as well. If we do, we can =20= > help out the whole community w/o it being a burden on any one person. > > TjL > > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random =20 > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >