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From: joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: tetris and posting sources
Message-ID: <1991Jun04.123559.6204@jrix.radig.de>
Date: 4 Jun 91 12:35:59 GMT
References: <15479153@mailgsm.mendelson.com>
Organization: Joachim Riedel, Offenbach, West Germany
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gsm@mailgsm.mendelson.com (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) writes:

>I am in the U.S. and use UUNET as my feed. I pay about one cent a k-bytes, but
>my news feed (which is a small one) still costs me over a hundered dollars a
>month. 

In Germany I now pay about $ 10 a month for a connection to a news feed.
How much news I receive is my own problem and I only pay the standard
telephone costs I also would have if I would talk too much.

>There are some people on this group (Joachim for example) who have to pay 
>government owned telephone companies ridiculous (to us) rates for data
>telephone service. I think he pays close to a dollar a k-byte.
it's 30 cents a kilobyte but only for mail !! All foreign mail that passes
the german backbone UNIDO costs that much but not news !!

So (only speaking for me) I don't worry about 10 Megabytes of news,
I only worry about 10 k of mail from the US.
(10 MB news is $ 1 , 10 kilobyte mail is $ 3)

One disadvantage of this group is that most of the stuff is forwarded to
the Coherent mailing list and there most people have to pay for the mail.
(That is one of the reasons I accept not to post sources here)
Therefore I will never want to be a member of the mailing list. It will
make me poor. News are just some seconds more with my Traily.

But it is difficult to decide what to do. 
Most non-american Readers of this group do like sources posted to this 
group (especially KIWI-Country (New Zealand) and Germany).
You can't satisfy everyone.


>     2. The STANDARD COHERENT MAKE "make" will not make it.
I have the standard buggy make of CO 3.1.0 and it worked without
problems. Unshared it, make'd it and played for half an hour.
Maybe there is a new bug in the make-update. Thinking about 
the mail from the mailing-list...  we found a new bug in the
update release of ...... There were several such things mentioned
by Douglas Peterson of MWC.

Joachim

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