Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ubvax!ames!watson
From: watson@ames.arc.nasa.gov (John S. Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Subject: Re: Voice Mail Format -- I sure hope this isn't final.
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Date: 12 Dec 88 22:43:13 GMT
Reply-To: watson@ames.arc.nasa.gov (John S. Watson)
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[eat me!]

In Article 1025 <18109@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) writes:
> Are you sure that this is the format NeXT voice mail is transmitted
> over the net?  I grabbed that file, and it was HUGE.
> At 8 kbytes/second of voice, I am not sure if anyone can tolerate
> the traffic.
>
> A lot of foreign e-mail addressees pay  $$$ per kilobyte of
> messages RECEIVED and transmitted.  I think Japanese users pay
> something like $1.00/kilobyte.  That comes to $8/second!

This is how the US is going to balance the trade deficit from now on. :-)

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