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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Elvis-->Docs, Program, and Source (Stop Whining)
Message-ID: <2328@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 19 Nov 90 04:06:40 GMT
References: <16951@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1888@raybed2.msd.ray.com> <4878@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <4878@trantor.harris-atd.com> sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) writes:

| 	And...On BBSs: Everytime Petersen posts, doesn't his sig give
| 		info about Detroit Download Central, where all the
| 		SIMTEL stuff can be had?

  People are too cheap to *pay* for stuff. I just got several notes by
mail telling me that I was a bandit to ask $10/month for uucp access on
this system, they hadn't been paying the $15/yr (optional) fee for BBS
and they sure weren't going to pay more for uucp.

  On top of just writing a check for another replacement 320MB drive and
reading 30 complaining posts about elvis, I can't imagine the whiners
being willing to pay fees and phone bills to get service.

  Now, if one of the complainers about my bank of slow modems would just
get mad enough to send me a couple of T2500's, I bought the serial card
I need to support them, and I have FAS, so... Nah, but I did have one
person mail me software on a 360k floppy and tell me I could keep it, I
guess I shouldn't complain.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me