Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: FYI -- PC-P Price "Increase" Message-ID: <195@becker.UUCP> Date: 3 Jan 89 19:38:51 GMT References: <261@lakesys.UUCP> <7342@chinet.chi.il.us> <574@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> <2575@looking.UUCP> <579@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) Distribution: na Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario Lines: 23 In article <579@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) writes: > [...] >If you logged into the Net Exchange, you would know that in the statement >of policy (and the inevitable clarifications which followed) Telenet made it >clear that FidoNet and Usenet feeds are valid uses of PCPursuit. What was >prohibited was the DiversiDial systems. These are probably the scum who >wrecked it for us all, if you must point a finger at some group of the >user community. Another possibility is the decision was completely internal >to Telenet. Another possibility is that Telenet got greedy. Once a significant customer base has been developed, they might gamble that the problems of replacing the PCP service would outweigh the dollar cost increases in the minds of said customers. It is even possible that they has such a strategy in place from the start, but this is less likely... Cheers, -- _ _/\ Bruce Becker Toronto, Ont. \`o O| Internet: bdb@becker.UUCP, bruce@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu \(")/ BitNet: BECKER@HUMBER.BITNET ---mm-U-mm--- "The OSF is suffering from Penix envy" - Rocky Raccoon