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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,news.config
Subject: Re: French and UK sites wanted for EUcon.
Message-ID: <2172@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 89 08:36:44 GMT
References: <96@i2ack.UUCP> <303@dcs.UUCP> <55538@pyramid.pyramid.com> <1989Jan20.165603.5440@utzoo.uucp> <1322@altger.UUCP>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates, Vancouver, BC.
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In article <1322@altger.UUCP> cld@altger.UUCP (Claus L. Duerr) writes:
}In article <1989Jan20.165603.5440@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
}}In article <303@dcs.UUCP> wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) writes:
}}>... this is a most blatant violation of the USENET spirit

}}The "Usenet spirit" fades fast when *you* have to pay, or justify paying,
}}substantial long-distance bills.  Believe me, I know:  there was a time

}perfectly right! but there is a *big* difference between taking money
}to pay bills (caused by the net-service) and making money by demanding
}more money than the net-traffic costs.

And an even bigger difference when you try to setup as a monopoly and
attempt to *prevent* anyone else from offering a lower cost solution.

I think that anyone trying to evolve a lower cost solution should be
appluaded and supported. 

Anyone trying to impose an expensive solution don't deserve support.

I would suggest that people in Europe try and prod their PTT's into
loosening up the standards a bit to allow easier entry for modems.

One interesting rumor .. is it true that sometime in the next year or so any
modem approved for sale in a member of the common market countries can be 
sold in any other member without any additional approval. 

Heard this from a modem manufacturer who had his modem certified in the UK 
and wasn't planning on doing any more (expensive) testing or modifications, 
but was just going to wait. To quote "Why pay for something that will be 
handed to us on a platter in a year and a half?".

Should shake things up plenty if it's true!!!

-- 
Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca {ubc-cs,uunet}!van-bc!sl     Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532