[LINK] Fwd: Best of ZDNet: Thanks for the memories

[Howard Lowndes]

An annoyance it might be, but are they not entitled to try to recoop some
of their costs for a free service.

Did their privacy policy tell the whole story?

-- 
Howard.
LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people
Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com

On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Jan Whitaker wrote:

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