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From: dan@hpnmdla.hp.com (Dan Pleasant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: the wonders of usenet
Message-ID: <450018@hpnmdla.hp.com>
Date: 18 Apr 91 15:50:00 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.125246.23173@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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>>Hope this helps,
>>Keith Rollin  ---  Apple Computer, Inc. 

>That'll be $300, please.

>I just received a mailing from Apple, announcing a helpful new program;
>anyone can buy access to DTS for a mere $6000/year, (or $1800 for 6
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^      ^^^^^   WOW!
>questions).  Now, I'm not posting this because I think those are terribly
>outrageous prices, but to point out to everyone here what an incredible
>deal usenet is, where your questions are answered for free.

Excuse me, but is there an extra zero here?  When I re-upped last year,
the Apple Partners program was only $600/year!  Is this the announcement
of a new Apple product called HyperInflation?  Or is this just a mistake?
Small, poor, inquiring developers want to know!

>If I had $6000/year and no net access, my check would go to uunet, not Apple.
>(A fact which I doubt Apple would mind; I expect that they're not out to make
>money on the support program, just not to lose any.)

At $6000/year, for 10,000 developers, I suspect that Apple will not lose
any money!

>--
>Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
>Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu  UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner


Dan Pleasant


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