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From: joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: comp.os.coherent or Coherent-Mailing-list ?
Message-ID: <1991Jan1.142028.2051@jrix.radig.de>
Date: 1 Jan 91 14:20:28 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Joachim Riedel, Offenbach, West Germany
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I read a lot about the discussion what to prefer, a newsgroup or
the Coherent-Mailing-list.
The following is my opinion:

I have no possiblities to ftp so I couldn't get software from /pub/coherent.
MWCBBS is (from Germany) too expensive ( 16 Cents for 4.45 seconds).
I as a private person have to pay for EMAIL ( 30 Cents/kb ).

On the other side it's easier to receive News from the german SUBNET,
I now just have the transmission costs.

So a Newsgroup like comp.os.minix for Coherent is for me the only
affordable solution.

I don't want to be a second class coherent user just because of the 
fact I live in Germany and didn't work at a company or a university
with the possiblity to receive/send mail free of charge.

Joachim

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Joachim Riedel                           joachim@jrix.radig.de
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