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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.news.stargate
Subject: Re: Starhub -- one alternative to Stargate
Message-ID: <6945@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Jul-86 18:34:30 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 16 18:34:30 1986
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> ...The capital investment
> is a 2400 baud modem costing less than $1,000. Many sites are using 1200 baud
> compressed service at twice the cost (why I don't know, since the capital
> payback is about 2 months).

It's really easy to figure out, actually:  phone-bill money and capital-
equipment money are not freely interconvertible in most large organizations.
Oh, they are if you go high enough up the management tree... but quite often
Usenet cannot stand the sort of upper-management scrutiny that would result.

There is also a chicken-and-egg problem, since *your* investment does not
pay back a cent until your neighbors make similar investments.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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