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From: plocher@sally.Sun.COM (John Plocher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: GFX Information
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Date: 15 Feb 90 02:52:20 GMT
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+-- In <1253@kl-cs.UUCP> mike@cs.keele.ac.uk (Michael A. Green) writes
| > The contents of the GFX Demo Disk from Ken Chapin at Microport
| Hi,
| 	Would it be possible for some kind soul to post the contents of
+--

			PLEASE DON'T!

The compressed, uuencoded, and split disk image is EIGHT 60K chunks.
At 1200 baud this works out to over an hour of modem time PER Usenet site
Granted, at 19.2Kbaud it is only 10 minutes, but it still is a very
significant amount of money.

Try getting it from Microport - and if they can't/won't get you a
copy for ~< US$20.00 *then* let the world know and then think about
having someone (singular) post the stuff.

Don't EVER make the assumption that the "net" is free.  It may not
cost *you* much (if anything), but for many of us, the money is real.

	-John Plocher

Some eye opening figures:

Assume that 100 people on the net find the GFX demo useful.
Assume that they could have gotten it from Microport for $20.00.
Total cost = $2,000

Assume 5,000 Usenet sites
Assume 2400 baud comunications between them (40 minutes transfer time)
Assume a $10.00/hour phone charge ($0.1666 per minute)
Total cost = (5000 * 40 * .1666) = $33,320 ($6.60/site)

Assume 5,000 Usenet sites
Assume 9600 baud comunications between them (10 minutes transfer time)
Assume a $10.00/hour phone charge ($0.1666 per minute)
Total cost = (5000 * 10 * .1666) = $8,330 ($1.66/site)