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From: fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: An apology, and a question (about uucp in Germany)
Message-ID: <270@icdi10.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 89 05:05:27 GMT
References: <786@redsox.bsw.com> <987@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Reply-To: fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home)
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In article <987@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E.  Terveer)
writes:
>In article <786@redsox.bsw.com>, campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell)
writes:
->> Now, my question (and I'd prefer to get answers only from people in
Germany,
->> who know, rather than people in the US, who are guessing).  What is going
on
->> in Germany that makes getting a news feed so unbelievably expensive?  [..]
[deleted stuff]
->I have also heard that it is relatively difficult to get 2400 baud modems in
->germany, and quite difficult to get >2400 baud modems.

Last I heard a 1200 baud modem from the Bundespost was around 2000DM
Almost $1000.  I know it sounds ridiculous but that's the message I got.
Fred



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This is my house.   My castle will get started right after I finish with news. 
26 Warren St.             uucp:          ...{bpa dsinc uunet}!cdin-1!icdi10!fr
Beverly, NJ 08010       domain:  fred@cdin-1.uu.net or icdi10!fr@icdi10.uu.net
609-386-6846          "Freude... Alle Menschen werden Brueder..."  -  Schiller