Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site zinfandel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!hplabs!intelca!qantel!dual!zehntel!zinfandel!berry From: berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: 2 questions and 2 answers about satellite netnews Message-ID: <282@zinfandel.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 17:34:39 EST Article-I.D.: zinfande.282 Posted: Wed Dec 19 17:34:39 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 00:42:43 EST References: <472@vortex.UUCP> Reply-To: berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval) Organization: Zehntel Inc., Walnut Creek CA Lines: 23 In article <472@vortex.UUCP> lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) writes: >... >If some people's management feel better spending >$600/month for netnews phone calls than $30 month for a >netnews cable-delivered service fee, then there is little I can >say, other than that there's a lot of pretty narrow-minded management >floating around. Such sites can keep spending their money >on phone calls and get netnews the current way. >... The problem in some companies is that the phone costs can be absorbed in overhead, while buying a decoder would be a capital equipment purchase -- a whole 'nother barrel of fish! But let me know when these suckers are available -- if I have to I'll take up a collection here! -- "Take this //JOB and run it!" Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) (415)932-6900