Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!rutgers!netsys!len From: len@netsys.COM (Len Rose) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Courier HST rebuttal Keywords: HST BLAZER Message-ID: <12783@netsys.COM> Date: 24 Feb 89 17:09:35 GMT References: <415@studsys.mu.edu> <3004@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <149@biar.UUCP> Reply-To: len@netsys.UUCP (Len Rose) Organization: Netsys,Inc. Lines: 20 In article <149@biar.UUCP> jhood@biar.UUCP (John Hood) writes: # # Not if you run a BBS, or (I think also) a public-access Unix machine. # Both of these qualify for USR's half price sysop deal, which cuts the # price of the modem to $495, and you don't get the apparently useless # HST/ix software (grin). I do believe, Karl, that you fall into this # category. # That offer is just about useless on this net.. It's sure to make a low level penetration in the Unix world if this is the best they can do.. There are merely a handful of public access sites.. If they want to compete with Telebit for the unix market they will have to match their marketing efforts. -- len@netsys.com {ames,att,rutgers}!netsys!len