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From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: satellite netnews costs
Message-ID: <1305@eosp1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 00:16:36 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 20 00:16:36 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 23:30:13 EST
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Reply-To: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton
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Summary: 

>This is to those bozos out there who would pay thousands for an IBM PC
>or Mac or whatever and 3 or 4 hundred for Lotus 1-2-3 or MultiPlan or
>Dbase II and then would have the gall to flame about a cable-to-RS232
>decoder that costs the same as a phone-to-RS232 modem.  You deserve to
>get what you pay for!  Squeeze those nickels and let the dollars slip
>through your fingers!

I suspect that many of us pay NOTHING for our access to net news.
We have been provided access via a terminal on a system by our employer
or university, or else we have paid for access to a system for some
other reason and get the net as a bonus.  Some of us have actually
paid for modem access already, but that doesn't mean we will pay
$500 more for ANOTHER (readonly, too) access to the news.

I support the satellite experiment, but you don't have to be a bozo
to find $500 a lot of money for the readonly net.

  - Toby Robison (not Robinson!)
  {allegra, decvax!ittvax, fisher, princeton}!eosp1!robison