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In article <1il0paINN5qc@flash.pax.tpa.com.au> dclunie@pax.tpa.com.au writes:
>> I got your posting to Newsgroups: aus.cdrom
>
>Thanks for your replies ! The group has indeed propagated far and wide,
>though I have not had a single response from an Australian site yet !@#$
>Mostly from US, Canada, UK and Singapore.

	Hey: I live in Oz.
>
>This may be because most news admins here don't like to automatically let
>newgroups be created without their manually intervention, and they probably
>haven't got around to doing that yet. Perhaps this says something about
>Australia being a country of totalitarian and inefficient/lazy people :)

	I'm not aware of any restrictions on the UCC site.
Any other university sites have restrictions? I would have thought
if laziness was the issue it would be easier to not intervene
manually :-=)

>
>> What is the group about?
>
>It is meant as an Australian equivalent of alt.cd-rom, for discussion of
>the technology in general, local suppliers, local mastering facilities,
>legal issues peculiarly Australian, and so on.

	So the obvious questions:

	How much does it cost to make a master?
	How do you supply the data?
	How many CDROM players in Oz? The rest of the world?

	How many on DOS machines, how many on other machines?

	How many years will it be until:

	compiler products are available ONLY on CDROM?
	(e.g. Windows NT-beta I think is ONLY available on CDROM)

	the number of games for CDROM is so significant that
	serious kids MUST have a CDROM on their PC?

	the number of business databases on CDROM is so great
	that no $1Meg/yr turnover business can do without one
	(any more than a fax, say)


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