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