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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: requests to post zoo
Keywords: ZOO COPYRIGHT
Message-ID: <3859@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 88 12:07:11 GMT
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Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <6263@dasys1.UUCP> tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) makes some
points.  See original article for context.

>When
>measuring downloading expense, the cost ought to be measured in dollars
>per kilobyte, not per hour.

Downloading throughput is very hard to measure consistently.  It varies
with time and with protocol.  (Last time I measured it at CIS about a
year ago, it was approximately 30 characters per second while I was
logged in at 1200 bps.  I didn't try 2400 bps, but far more people use
1200 bps than 2400 bps.)

>Rahul has better things to do
>than try to be a "market factor" in how much these services charge the
>kiddies to peck away at Spacewar, which is where the big price
>differences kick in.

I don't care how much they charge for Spacewar or for anything else.  I
just care how much they charge for distributing version 2.0x of my
software.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi