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In article <1992Oct12.134459.20401@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <9htzv8p@rpi.edu>, multics@acm.acm.rpi.edu (Multics) writes:
>| I've heard several people talking about setting up a public access unix system 
>| in the capital district.  I'd like to know if there's any interest out
>| there.
>
>  Since the ones currently existing get little use, I'm not sure I'd
>plan getting rich doing this.
I'm hoping to break even or at least not loose too much money.
>
>| What type of services would people want besides news and email?
>| (ftp, telnet, irc, etc?)
>
>  Are you talking about public access unix or internet access? I'm not
>sure there's a market for either, but one doesn't imply the other.
Both.  I've currently priced a full news feed and 56K leased line to
uunet.
>
>| What do people think would be reasonable rates?
>| (world.std.com is $20/month for 2hours/day)
>
>  I couldn't get people to pay $20/year, which is why I don't offer net
>access any more, and make news/mail free. If you can't cover the cost
>of business lines, make it free and use cheap residential lines.
Unless the NYT business office lied to me, the business lines for
dialins would cost the same as my current residential lines ($25/month).
The big cost of business lines appears to be dialing out, which would
not be supported.
>
>  There are so many schools offering access to students, teachers,
>lecturers, etc, that the market just doesn't seem to be there.
There are many people that don't fall into any of those catagories and in
many cases the groups availible may be limited by the site.  For a variety
of reasons, mostly disk space related, rpi carries around 1600-1700 groups,
whie theres about 3300 out there (last estimate I heard that seemed likely
to be reliable).
There are several schools in the area that do not have internet access, or
restrict the access as they may be uucp or low speed line connected.