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kenji@tom.astem.or.jp (Kenji Rikitake) writes:

>In article <2707@aegis.or.jp> davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:
> |Via InetClub? ? ? I hope not, that could cost a lot!

>The latest uunet.uu.net's sys file says kddlab has quitted subscribing
>news via UUNET link. So kddlab (or InetClub) only handles
>international mail link via its UUNET link.
>(you can ftp uunet.uu.net's sys file from ftp.uu.net:uunet-info/sys.Z
> (compressed))

So at one time people *were* subscribing to news over InetClub.

> |I find it a bit curious that Toshiaba doesn't have enough disk
> |space.  I just added two 660 MB hard disks to Aegis and they only
> |cost $1099 each. Not so much. How many people read the news? And
> |what kind of hardware are you running on? 

>Financial dept. of Japanese companies usually will not allow buying
>cheap made-in-Taiwan hard disk drives, let alone importing them from
>overseas. *sigh*

FYI, I'm speaking of Micropolis hard drives imported from the U.S.
but made in Singapore. 

Such hard drives can't cost more than 3 X the price in Japan and
certainly a company the size of Toshiba could afford them.  (Maybe
their executives could give up a couple of games of golf:-) So I
think we are talking about economic *priorities* more than anything
else. 

Dave

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