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From: mike@captain.UUCP (Mike Proicou)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Too much cross-posting?
Message-ID: <191@captain.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jul 89 04:39:30 GMT
References: <674@whizz.uucp> <171@zebra.UUCP> <157@zorch.UU.NET> <688@whizz.uucp> <159@zorch.UU.NET> <696@whizz.uucp>
Reply-To: mike@captain.UUCP (Mike Proicou)
Organization: Page Manor Networking - Dayton, OH USA
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In article <696@whizz.uucp> bbh@whizz.UUCP (Bud Hovell) writes:
>In article <159@zorch.UU.NET> scott@zorch.UU.NET (Scott Hazen Mueller) writes:
>You do, then, confirm that in order to receive the unix-pc group(s), the
>ordinary leaf site should ordinarily be expected (if required by location)
>to buy a Trailblazer (@ ~$600), and pay long-distance charges for the privilege
>of access to this group? After having registered as a domain - not exactly
>the rule on Usenet? You consider this a reasonable price-of-admission. Do I
>have that right?

Nahh, no Trailblazer required...

>
>I assume you would agree that these *are* obstacles that the ordinary leaf site
>need not typically hurdle in order to receive groups in the ('scuse me) "main
>feed". That, indeed, the Trailblazer would usually become a necessity *only*
>because of the need to reduce long-distance charges in order solely to 
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>maintain the unix-pc group(s) - since the majority of those sites will likely
>be able to get local service without long-distance. Sorry, but it seems to me
>that this is a solution fully worthy of Marie Antoinette.
>

I don't know who YOUR phone company is (mine's ATT), but I pay approximately
35 cents per day to pick up a partial feed of unix-pc.* and comp.sys.att via
long distance.  Of course, I'm only using 2400 baud, and poll Columbus once
per night.  If this gets too expensive, I think I'll drink one less can of pop
at work during the day to support my unix-pc.* habit!

I wonder how long it would take for a Telebit to pay for itself?????

$600 / .35 =  1714 days to recover the cost of a new modem!  I guess I'd 
have to pick up more groups!


Mike

PS I really wanted to stay out of this discussion, but ... 
-- 
Mike Proicou                                 | The supreme irony of life is
mproicou@blackbird.afit.af.mil               | that hardly anyone gets out
osu-cis!n8emr!captain!mike                   | of it alive.   -- R Heinlein