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Todd, the csna moderator has again been in touch with me, very politely
asking me to call off my campaign for a vote on the question of prices
in the forum he feeds and cares for.

I have recieved lots of messages in support of a vote, heavily in favour 
of having pricing info, ie. not taking it out. Some of this mail comes
from europe, where I too happen to live, and this makes me want to point out
that software prices here are often inflated, around 180% of US list.
Knowing the (low) US prices allows us to order direct, purchasing things
we could never afford at local rates!

Also, people in europe cannot call 800 numbers, and find long distance 
a bit expensive to use on a day to day basis! Thus USENET acts as a
window on the US market for us, and we resent anyone putting "curtains"
across that window to prevent us from seeing those "obscene, commercial" :-)
prices of those "nice, sexy" :-) products.

I remain in favor of a vote on the issue of prices on csna, and would
request todd to deal publicly with the issue here. A flame war seems
unlikely as we have all been (I believe) talking politely, and fairly
rationnally.

Edmund.