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Brian J Walter (Brewing Chemist) wrote:

> Bradley Greager <bgreager@holly.colostate.edu> wrote:
> : dan@take_this_out.lamar.andthistoo.colostate.edu wrote:
>
> : > Willyosaurus <remy@CNR.ColoState.EDU> wrote:
> : >
> : > : gak! read about this yesterday.. 22 big ones a semester.. any truth to this?
> : >
> : >  Yup. $60 for faculty. (Yearly)
>
> :      Ok, what is their excuse this time?
>
> http://www.colostate.edu/acns/modems/modempr.html
>
> Please take the time to read this before whining.  Afterwards, whine all
> you want ;)

    That's why I was asking where they saw the article :-)

> Btw, a modem management committee is being formed by ACNS.  Join it to
> help shape future modem plans.

    The only thing about this tho is that they only want people who will be using the
modems, so those of us that are in the dorms, like braiden, will be using our
hi-speed connections, and thus cannot 'join in the fight' or whatever you want to
call it, when decisions and policies are being made regarding modem usage.  Also,
not that this would not (or would it?) happen, but what if our fast connections did
break down for some reason?  No modem to back you up.  And what happens
during the summer? (I don't remember that in the article).  I just think it would be
a major pain for the majority of peoplewho are not on campus and have to use
modems.  Yes there are labs, but there just aren't enuf for everyone, ya know?
I think that there is a very significant portion of students who use the modems, and
they outnumber those of us here on campus (for the time being).  It's just too bad
that with all of the tech fees we already pay that we have to add a modem charge
on top of it.
    Basically this is the same arguement/conflict we had last summer when we found
out that we were going to be charged for our ethernet connections.  Now that it's
been changed to a one time fee, things are a little better.  However, with the modems
it will be on a regular basis (semesterly for students; pro-rated yearly for faculty) and
it's just another cost to college that IMO is unneccessary.
    Now I'm just wondering when they're gonna start charging for our e-mail accounts.
It's interesting how they promote (on the CSU homepages/ACNS pages) the free e-mail
and web space we get, but then turn around and charge us to connect to it.  Is it
really free then?  I don't think so... it's just like the rest of 'em (aol, compuserve,
etc.).
    On the flip side, if it helps CSU get the telecommunications bid (and gets it away
from US west) then I guess I'd be all for it (considering US wests wonderful support
service, timely responses, etc.)
    Well, there's my $.02  (again :-P  )
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