"Roland Perry" <roland@perry.co.uk> wrote in message
news:vDzqns1Rio5HFAav@perry.co.uk
: In message
: <bd38879c-9229-4461-8cac-9f674bf00d19@d21g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
: at 09:09:33 on Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Paul Oter
: <paul.oter@googlemail.com> remarked:

[snip]

: >Well, when I rent a car the term "unlimited mileage"
: >means just that; none of the car rental firms I use have
: >a "fair usage policy".
:
: That's partly because it's much harder work to exceed a
: "fair" mileage in a rental car, than bytes on a broadband
: connection!

That all depends on your definition of "fair" doesn't it. My definition of
fair when applied to something described as unlimited is precisely that.
It's blatantly *unfair* to me to limit something at the same time as
calling it unlimited.

Just my 2p.

Ivor