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From: scum@walney.walney.com (Steven C. Monroe)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Monthly posting on USENET manual set
Keywords: manuals, usenet
Message-ID: <298@walney.walney.com>
Date: 10 Sep 90 12:24:35 GMT
References: <1990Sep06.215045.25117@virtech.uucp> <4547@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: JPR Ventures, Chantilly VA
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jliu@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Joe Liu) writes:

>In article <1990Sep06.215045.25117@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>......
>>Please note that this pricing is only "cost-recovery" pricing.  We are not
>>making any profit on the deal.

>  Suggestion #1, Won't it be more convient for everyone who wants the docs
>to be able to fetch them from some ftp site if you put them there ? 

Gee whiz.. I don't have the original article but I think you missed the real
point.  Here the guy is, trying to help out (within reason I might add) and
make a large portion of the usenet documentation available to people in
hard copy. If you could tell me how to FTP printouts......
---------

Having spent time generating and printing the documents I would much rather
be able to purchase them and use that generation time for other projects.

>  Suggestion #2, you are not making any profit, while by addvertising on 
>10 or so groups world wide, you are costing someone some real money, and 
>your customers are sending out some real $50 for each order. 

I just love these postings that blast someone for using other people for 
using other people's money, do it by posting rather than email.  Does this
make him a "Born Again _______" (You fill in the blank) ;-)

>Joe