Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Phil Smith) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin Subject: Re: More on the Serious Dilemma. Message-ID: <12629@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 30 Sep 88 03:36:04 GMT References: <6849@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <2416@sultra.UUCP> <3152@utastro.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: news.sysadmin Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 31 As quoted from <3152@utastro.UUCP> by werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig): +--------------- | In article <2416@sultra.UUCP>, dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Dermot Tynan) writes: | > In article <6849@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>, jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) writes: | > > Unless steps are taken to curtail this wanton abuse of the good will | > > of the net, I will take whatever steps needed to raise the required | > > capital to create a Portal Communications Company clone which I will | > > then use to compete directly, head to head, with .portal.com ... | | I'm sure everyone I know would like to see you compete! | after all, it's the American way to keep prices reasonable | and service quality high ... +--------------- Actually, with ncoast becoming a fee-based system (assuming we get the hardware problems resolved), Portal now *has* some competition. Not that I expect ever to make any money directly from ncoast (e.g. contacts THROUGH ncoast have resulted in income, but working with ncoast itself has not and will not), and I daresay the other sysadmins won't profit either. (They may be recouping losses for a while, though.) I like to think ncoast does a bit more for the net than Portal does. (If you feel we don't, let me know! --Email, please. No point in flooding the net with it, I won't read it any faster.) ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, uunet!marque!ncoast!allbery DELPHI: ALLBERY For comp.sources.misc send mail to !sources-misc comp.sources.misc is moving off ncoast -- please do NOT send submissions direct ncoast's days are numbered -- please send mail to ncoast!system if you can help