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From: jeff@alberta.UUCP (C. J. Sampson)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: satellite netnews costs (what I should have said)
Message-ID: <361@alberta.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Dec-84 16:15:24 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 16 16:15:24 1984
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> Who are the real customers for satellite news?  How many commercial news
> sites will even be able to get a cable TV hookup, or justify it to
> management?  (Let them buy earth stations?  Ha.)
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>                                                                    it's
> still a lot easier to get the company to pay for phone calls to a news
> feed.)

Right.  Sure.  I think that a lot of companies would rather pay $3000 for
a dish and decoder, etc. initally and then another perhaps $100/month
(at most!) for electricity, maintenance, etc. rather then paying $500 or
more per month on phone bills.  Think of how much backbone sites like ihnp4
must pay per month in outgoing calls.  The system would pay for itself in
well under a year.  Now you try to tell your boss that it's better to use a
more expensive system rather then investing in a cheap one.

> >HOWEVER, if the network community doesn't like the way the project is
> >going, I will give the satellite people a call, tell them to pull the
> >plug on stargate, and then I'll even have more time to work on projects
> >that can help me pay this month's rent.
> 
> That's an ugly threat, Lauren.  We have to play by your rules or you'll
> take your marbles and go home.  How about option #3:  if the network
> community doesn't like the way the project is going, you will find out
> why and modify the project!

Ok, let's go by option number three.  Since we are going to tell him what
to do, and how we want it done, we should also pay him standard consulting
fees.  I figure he hasn't put in more than about five hundred hours so far,
so if somebody could just kindly dig up twenty thousand dollars or so for
him...


Lauren, keep going and ignore the jerks.  I see you doing something
constructive, I see others doing something destructive.  I'm behind
you all the way.  (I think the old saying applies here: a person is
either part of the problem or part of the solution.  Which are you?)
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