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From: jim@eda.com (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,news.admin
Subject: Re: FYI -- PC-P Price "Increase"
Message-ID: <427@eda.com>
Date: 5 Jan 89 17:01:01 GMT
References: <2625@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Reply-To: jim@eda.com (Jim Budler)
Organization: EDA Systems,Inc. Santa Clara, CA
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In article <2625@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger) writes:

| 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!
| 

Incorrect. I sent telegrams after being made aware of the threat through
Compuserve, Delphi, and Genie.

PC Pursuit was probably exceeding Telenet's capacity to provide the
service.  Since PC Pursuit doesn't actually pay for itself, Telenet
had to do something to discourage usage that *they* considered excess.
They aren't going to go out and buy more capacity for a service which
doesn't pay for itself.

jim-- 
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