Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!fisher!eosp1!robison 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 Article-I.D.: eosp1.1305 Posted: Thu Dec 20 00:16:36 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 23:30:13 EST References: <119@msdc.UUCP> Reply-To: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton Lines: 19 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