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From: gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Request for clarification
Message-ID: <3230008@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 24 May 88 15:07:42 GMT
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/ news.misc / swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Frank Swarbrick) / May 23, 1988 /
>I agree [...] except for the part about BBS's cost money.  I have yet to
>spend any money calling BBS's, and I have been calling them for three years.
>Most BBS's don't charge money.  And because there are over 200 BBS's in the
>Denver/Boulder area I have no reason to call long distance boards.

Yep.  But Denver/Boulder is probably one of the largest free calling areas in
the U.S.  Here in the Chicago area, calling an apartment in the same building
often costs money (it depends on which phone company services your area).
Hence the "costs money" part.

Jacob Gore				Gore@EECS.NWU.Edu
Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept.		{oddjob,gargoyle,ihnp4}!nucsrl!gore