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- From: altinbay@netcom.com (John Altinbay)
- Subject: Re: Cable TV: Disorganized Crime, Was: Re: dangerous group
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.212234.14909@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <1992Dec30.181151.2798@island.COM> <13760@optilink.COM>
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:22:34 GMT
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- In article <13760@optilink.COM> walsh@optilink.COM (Mark Walsh) writes:
- >
- >What can you do about it? For one, stop pretending that
- >they are a monopoly. There are many other sources of
- >information. Still want to watch the tube? The antenna
- >system that I put up in 1985 (antenna, rotator,mast, mast-
- >mounted pre-amp, feedline, lightning arrestor, guy wires,
- >etc.) cost no more than a year's worth of cable, and is
- >still working fine. I get all of the stations from S.F.,
- >S.J., and Sacramento in my Santa Rosa home, it does not
- >cost me a dime, and I don't have to deal with those cable
- >system outages and contribute to RF leaking out through
- >el-cheapo connectors all over the place.
- >
-
- OK. Let me know when you figure out how to get AMC and other worthwhile
- cable stations through the TV antenna. I didn't get cable in order to save
- going up on the roof.
-
-
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- John Altinbay - altinbay@netcom.com
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- There's a spirit that guides me, a light that shines for me
- My life is worth the living, I don't need to see the end.
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