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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!nigel.msen.com!emv
- From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
- Newsgroups: alt.bbs.ads
- Subject: Re: Affordable UUCP/USENET for BBS operartors
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 18:12:47 GMT
- Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Message-ID: <1hcujdINN7ve@nigel.msen.com>
- References: <1992Dec24.041748.3222@coplex.com>
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- Dean Brooks (dean@coplex.com) wrote:
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- : Our company spends approx $12000.00 a year in telephone costs for
- : uucp access. We help defray the costs a bit by charging other sites
- : for news feeds. Why should we give feeds out for free? If we don't charge
- : for feeds, *WE* don't get a feed.
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- At $12K/yr you could have a 56kb/sec leased line into the Internet from
- any of a number of providers. If you're spending $1000/mo just on UUCP
- bills then you're spending too much....
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- Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com
- Msen Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI 48103 +1 313 998 GLOB
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