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- Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!hacker
- From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: IBM won't accept Internet problem reports any more
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 20:03:49 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- Lines: 17
- Message-ID: <1gldn5INNbs3@gap.caltech.edu>
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- NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu
- Keywords: IBM problem report compuserve cis
-
- hmkirchh@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Hans-Joachim Kirchhoff) writes:
-
- >Since CIS charges the RECIPIENT of a message from the internet (IBM in this
- >case), I am not very astonished. It is several cent you have to pay for
- >the message, depending on the size. I don't know how many messages they
- >received from I-Net, but I would imagine, it must have been quite some
- >$$ worth.
-
- I can't help but think there is more to this than CIS charges. After,
- all, IBM has nodes on the internet (software.watson.ibm.com to name
- just one) so they could easily set up an internet email address for
- tech support if they wanted to.
-
- --
- Jon Hacker
- Caltech, Pasadena CA
- hacker@tumbler-ridge.caltech.edu
-