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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp,news.admin
Subject: Re: BITFTP grief!
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Date: 19 May 91 16:35:35 GMT
References: <1991May16.224338.286@crom2.uucp> <1991May17.183950.25550@agate.berkeley.edu> <30EBM2G@xds13.ferranti.com> <1991May18.203937.9443@iguana.uucp>
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In article <1991May18.203937.9443@iguana.uucp> merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer) writes:
> >Fine. They gonna pay me the overtime for all the stuff that our developers
> >want or need, that I have to set up and poll myself because of the problems
> >establishing a reliable UUCP connection?

> can you say "a cost of doing business" ?

Can you say "we're already paying for the mail service, why should we pay
twice?"? Can you say "We're quite willing to pay for access to a reliable
service for things like this... in fact we're already doing so."?

I can. Because we are.

Playing games with half a dozen archive servers, trying to talk one of them
into copying software in, and so on... it's insane. I get better service
from the public library system, and I'm not a paying customer (except in as
much as I'm a taxpayer... but let's not get into tax subsidized networks).
-- 
Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180;
Sugar Land, TX  77487-5012;         `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"