Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: UUPSI's new rules Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 91 02:05:55 GMT References: <1991Mar11.143824.24170@searchtech.com> <2517@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> <1991Mar14.052623.26604@jpradley.jpr.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 15 In article <1991Mar14.052623.26604@jpradley.jpr.com> jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes: > Seems to me that if you have something that costs little, and you can sell > it thousands of times for barely any incremental cost for each sale, why > wouldn't the marketing decision be to go for the highest possible volume? That's what they're doing. Going for the highest possible volume. > [if UUPSI] were to allow unimpeded and uncircumcsribed > traffic, not only would they gain lots more new customers No, they wouldn't. Why should you buy from UUPSI if you can get the same product second-hand, not even shopworn? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"