🚀 go-pugleaf

On 24 Aug 1996 04:32:18 GMT, cybrmage@Capital.Net (Cybermage), in
capdist.misc, in a burst of enthusiasm, recently expounded:

>|Enough bitching and whinning, what are the facts. Websters provides the
>|following definitions:
>|
>|	Collusion (n) - A secret agreement between two or more persons for
>|	a deceitful or illegal purpose.
>|
>|	Conspire (v) - [1] To plan together in secret to commit a wrongful
>|	act. [2] To act or work together.
>|
>|Dan A. Norton accuses the members of the albany-isp mailing list of using
>|state of the art technology to collude/conspire to fix prices. Unless I'm
>|mistaken, his proof is limited to the following:

	[snip]

>|I see no evidence of price fixing. Prices range anywhere from $4.95 to $30
>|with a variety of plans on the home pages of the providers listed above,
>|Heck, two of them don't even provide dial-up access. What do they gain by
>|participating in this great conspiracy?
>|
>|You be the judge. The consumer rests.
>|
>|Cybermage
>|
>|"Just another bozo on the Usenet bus." - great line, source forgotten :(

I am not familiar with the initial ravings of Mr. Norton referred
to in this post, but I can say with certainty that compared to
AOL, WINCIM, & GNN,  my provider (Wizvax) gives me more bang for
the buck than all three, plus a little!

Just my $ .02