Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-k.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-k!tim From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: satellite netnews costs Message-ID: <20980029@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 06:35:35 EST Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-k.20980029 Posted: Thu Dec 13 06:35:35 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 00:28:46 EST References: <466@vortex.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 22 First, I'd like to express the gratitude we all owe Lauren for his excellent and ridiculously fast work on this project to date. My question is, assuming that everything goes smoothly up to hardware manufacture, how will the final system be paid for? I realize the satellite time is free now, but obviously that won't be the case once the system is really deployed. Will it be a "normal" cable service, with billing by the local cable merchant, who in turn pays a fee to retransmit it, or what? In that case, is there likely to be sufficient demand so that most cable companies will bother to support it? Please forgive me if this question has already been dealt with. (When you are through forgiving me, send me mail explaining it in words comprehensible by a cretin.) Otherwise, please respond to this newsgroup. -=- Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center ARPA: Tim.Maroney@CMU-CS-K uucp: seismo!cmu-cs-k!tim CompuServe: 74176,1360 audio: shout "Hey, Tim!" "Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains." Liber AL, II:9.