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Article #117Re: Should Altopia just claim bankruptcy?
From: DevilsPGD
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:12
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:12
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In message <1n19p7.9e8.19.1@news.alt.net> Chris Caputo <ccaputo@alt.net> wrote: >thorn <thorn@usenet.> writes: >>Chris Caputo wrote: >>>Non-customers: Would it increase your chances of joining us? >> >>Never in a million years, chris. >>Prices for a subscription are ridiculous and unattached from reality. > >How so? $6/month is ridiculous? You have what, 8-9 days of binary retention? Compare that to the 100+ available on usenetserver, and you'll understand. If you're only marketing to text users or low volume binary users, you're competing with Supernews at ~$3.58/month (if prepaid for one year, with access to over 700 days of retention for this very group) or APN at $2.95/month (300+ days of text retention) Maybe not ridiculous, but around double what the competition offers.
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X-Google-Thread: fd665,d4024adfc75b3a93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd665,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!club-internet.fr!feedme-small.clubint.net!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng2.kpn.DE!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!sn-xt-sjc-02!sn-xt-sjc-07!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: DevilsPGD <spam_narf_spam@crazyhat.net> Newsgroups: altnet.general,alt.binaries.news-server-comparison Subject: Re: Should Altopia just claim bankruptcy? Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:12:57 -0600 Organization: Disorganized Message-ID: <c6qbt3hgu4aifch9smdcmb56jfs3bvtv48@4ax.com> References: <1mqbsi.ap2.17.1@news.alt.net> <1gi9t35je5toe9av4p85r7vu28qrma00mb@nntp4.usenetserver.com> <1n19p7.9e8.19.1@news.alt.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@supernews.com Lines: 21