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- From: zik@zikzak.apana.org.au (Michael Saleeba)
- Newsgroups: aus.aarnet
- Subject: Re: PAX drops its costs by popular demand
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 14:03:23 +1100
- Organization: Zikzak public access UNIX, Melbourne Australia
- Lines: 28
- Message-ID: <1h60hrINN461@zikzak.apana.org.au>
- References: <1gmlevINNaj@flash.pax.tpa.com.au> <1992Dec17.023142.4619@trl.oz.au> <1h3ekeINN5sp@werple.apana.org.au>
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- aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan) writes:
- >Maybe a compromise of $10/quarter.
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- hunter@werple.apana.org.au (James Gardiner) writes:
- >If you ask me $10 a month is reasonable considering the outlay.
- >Personally I think David has been a little rash and not had a good
- >look around... [deleted]
- >APANA, TMI(or whatever, the new MHSnet thing) and other network services
- >poping up, will make it had for him as they will be much cheaper.
-
- I think James and I can speak with reasonable authority. Both of us
- have operated public access systems and it costs a _lot_. I'm running
- a system in Melbourne (zikzak.apana.org.au), and all up it has cost me
- over fifteen thousand dollars. I considered charging but a few simple
- sums revealed that without bleeding my users dry there was absolutely
- no way I could make back even a fraction of the cost.
-
- That's ok by me. I do it for the fun, not for the money. Just as do
- the people who run the hundreds of free bulletin boards around
- Australia. That's why PAX is going to have a struggle ahead of it -
- how can it hope to compete with other systems which have much lower
- charges?
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- | -|- Zik -|- | "Sometimes I get the feeling |
- | zik@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au | that Schrodinger wasn't |
- | Michael Saleeba | really a cat lover." |
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