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Re: FYI - USWest wasting our money again

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From: Jan Vilhuber
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:27
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In article <1992Sep12.144600.13495@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt) writes:
>look up than using a paper phone book.  [Including time to get to
>the directory: walking to the shelf vs. turning on machine, running
>program, dialing...]
>
You mean you don't have your machine running all day anyway, andrew?;)

>BUT: that's still $9/hr, and if it turns into an awesome full
>featured on-line service, with netnews's successor, all the features of
>the internet, etc. -- I won't be able to afford it.  If one uses it
>a measely hour a day, that's over $3,000 a year.  :-(
>
Not this service per se, but it will be on the Community Link Gateway,
on which there are now a lot of services like the ones you are talking about.
This is up in Minnesota I believe.
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Subject: Re: FYI - USWest wasting our money again
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