Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: FYI -- PC-P Price "Increase" Message-ID: <2575@looking.UUCP> Date: 1 Jan 89 18:45:34 GMT References: <261@lakesys.UUCP> <7342@chinet.chi.il.us> <574@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Lines: 26 You're all blaming Telenet. I think they would rather have kept the unlimited use system -- after all, it was their idea! I'm sure they think it's a pain to have to institute accounting for everybody, and special charge billing. It was put in, as far as I know, to let people call BBSs and time sharing systems in other towns for their PERSONAL use. If that is all people had done, that would probably have been fine. An hour of use every day would make you a fairly high-use BBS user. But no. Lots of people started using it for far more than their own personal use. Some shared accounts, being so cheap as to not be willing to pay the $25 each. Some started feeding OTHER PEOPLE's data over it, as a service. Some even ran USENET feeds, effectively feeding data for me and tens of thousands of others. Some set up chat networks that stayed signed on all the time! This is personal use folks? Not a chance. It's all the people who abused the spirit of PC-Pursuit that have caused it to change. If you are looking for somebody to yell at, yell at them. (USENET feeds were probably the worst, because they consist of hours of 100% data transmission, not the sporadic data and keyboard interaction that you get from the interactive calling of a BBS to read messages.) -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473