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From: cabreu@marob.MASA.COM (Carlos Cabreu)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,news.admin
Subject: Re: FYI -- PC-P Price "Increase"
Summary: Forget the Target Market
Message-ID: <442@marob.MASA.COM>
Date: 4 Jan 89 15:06:02 GMT
References: <437@marob.MASA.COM> <2625@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Reply-To: cabreu@marob.masa.com (Carlos Cabreu)
Organization: ESCC  New York City
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In article <2625@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger) writes:

>They are still making money off their PC Persuit service I'd bet -- but now
>they want to make more money -- a whole lot more.

That's the American way.  Any of us in their shoes would do the same thing.


>If thousands of people do the analysis I've done, though, they may lose
>all their subscribers instead and be back to where they were before PC
>Persuit at night (fixed leased lines cost $, regardless of use!) :-)

You're speaking Net-traffic here.  The bulk of their subscribers are
individuals.  To the individual it's a great deal.


>Not if you have more than a 1200 baud modem it isn't.  Tell you what --
>let's look .... (figures and rationalization here).

If you're convinced that PC-Pursuit is no longer right for you (and it isn't
the same for each and every one of us), the I suggest that you don't use it
any more.  The average individual doesn't have a 'Blazer.  The average
individual WILL use ZModem (even a version for CP/M was just released) or
or another windowed protocol (Windowed XModem, or Windowed/Super Kermit, etc.)
to get better throughput.  The slow transfer rates experienced on PC-Pursuit
are indiginous to packet-switching nets, you simply have to use a higher
octane gasoline to get the most out of the car.


>We have always been treated like second-rate citizens.  When I have had
>problems with their gear dropping the line (in the middle of a call,
>unprovoked!) they simply said "oh well, we'll look into it".  Even an offer
>of active assistance (ie: you tell me when, I'll initiate a call and you
>watch for what goes wrong) was refused.

Again, you don't HAVE to use it.


>Remember the horrid problems with billed usage (like calls when there was no 
>physical means for them to have been made) when they finally got their billing
>computer working? (Working?  Well, almost.)  

I've had the service almost since its introduction and have never had a
problem with billing.

(However, I've had numerous errors on both my MCI and Bell billing.  Ugh.)


>Telenet also took advantage of the PC Persuit subscriber base in their quest 
>to block the recent FCC action -- regardless of how you slice it, without 
>PC Persuit there would NOT have been that massive letter campaign to the 
>FCC offices and Congresspersons!

Did you write a letter?  Were you protecting YOUR interests, or Telenet's?


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