Re: Alternatives to Comcast?

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From: Ben Pfaff
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 16:08

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"Rick" <me@privacy.net> writes:

> Weather Channel was included in Comcast's basic cable
> service, but Comcast is moving it from basic to extended
> basic as part of their "improved service", which means an
> increase from $15 to $42/month to receive it.

Why is the Weather Channel worth watching?  If I want to know
what the weather is going to be like, I look at a webpage,
e.g. noaa.gov).  Takes about 10 seconds.  Why would I want to
spend time actually watching a TV channel to find out the
weather?

(Plus, here in Palo Alto, CA you can find out the weather simply
by looking at the calendar.)
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
email: blp@cs.stanford.edu
web: http://benpfaff.org

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From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to Comcast?
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