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From: gl8f@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
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Subject: Re: Houston bbs's vs SW Bell - more
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Date: 27 Oct 88 17:11:27 GMT
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In article <3940@homxc.UUCP> halle@homxc.UUCP (J.HALLE) writes:
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>Of course you could let the BBSs be charged residential rates, but then ALL
>residential rates would have to be raised. [...]

by how much? 10 cents a month? 5? there are few bbses in this country... and
they provide a nice means of information exchange. there has already been one
governmental decision to discriminate in favor of computer communications for
this reason... the FCC decision to not to charge access fees for X25 services
and networks. why destroy/harm BBSing for the sake of MINIMAL economic
concerns.

years from now, when there are many more BBSes, your argument may be sound.
but for now, i suspect that the rate difference can be ignored.

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University of Virginia Department of Astronomy     bitnet:  gl8f@virginia.bitnet
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