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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO Copyrights (was: Re: requests to post zoo)
Keywords: ZOO COPYRIGHT
Message-ID: <3955@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 88 17:46:09 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 <8809120017.AA03509@slvblc.UUCP> slvblc!dick@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (Dick
Flanagan) writes:
>What I don't understand is why it's OK for me to download ZOO from CI$
>at 300 baud, but not at 1200 bps.  Or from GEnie at 1200 bps, but not
>at 2400 bps.

No Dick, that's not how it is.  The requirements are to be followed by
whoever distributes zoo 2.x, not by the person downloading it.

The requirement is that whoever distributes zoo 2.x online do so for no
more than $8/hour at 1200 bps during evening/night hours.  I don't care
about other times or other data rates.  Even $100/hour at 300 bps and
2400 bps is fine, so long as people can call at 1200 bps and get the
$8/hour rate.

I don't care about the charge at 2400 bps because anybody who can
download at 2400 bps can also download at 1200 bps.  All the modems and
networks that handle 2400 bps also handle 1200 bps.  The reverse is not
necessarily true.

I don't care about 300 bps because it is nearly obsolete.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi