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Re: Rules Testing

Back in the AOL days, I used to have a dedicated phone line just for the AOL freephone dial up connection. Was connected 24/7.

When we ended up getting adsl after a few years of that, when cancelling, we complained a little when we didn't get the correct refund. The guy on the phone said, you had connected a couple of times in that period, and looking at your connection history, your account is probably the most used we have.

I said, ok then, didn't matter. 3 years 24/7 connected for 9.99/m. 56k, nice.

The AOL client would disconnect after 15 mins of inactivity, just set a ping up on the computer sharing the connection, always on.

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