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From: TOG on 14 Apr 2010 05:23 On 13 Apr, 11:09, pe...(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: > James Jolley <jrjol...(a)me.com> wrote: > > Why do you think the Berlin lot only charge a tenner a year? > > They've said that they would rather not charge at all, and that the ¤10 > is simply to discourage abusers and bandwidth wasters. It's nothing > about recovering costs- which I suspect it doesn't. That's interesting. I hadn't heard that. But it makes sense. The 10- euro charge is an utter bargain, IMHO.
From: Peter Ceresole on 14 Apr 2010 05:47 TOG(a)Toil <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > They've said that they would rather not charge at all, and that the �10 > > is simply to discourage abusers and bandwidth wasters. It's nothing > > about recovering costs- which I suspect it doesn't. > > That's interesting. I hadn't heard that. It was in the spiel when they first started charging. They clearly didn't want to... It's probably still on the site somewhere. -- Peter
From: James Jolley on 14 Apr 2010 09:03 On 2010-04-14 08:47:52 +0100, Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> said: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com>: > > [...] > >> I suspect a lot of the decisions go along the lines of: >> >> Usenet cost: Non-zero >> Usenet apparent benefit:zero > > I have a lovely mental image of some manager at JANET opening up ucsm, > taking a look at a few threads, and saying, `Who are these nutters? > What is this all about? We're paying *how much* for this?!' > > b. Would be funny. Mind you, this one's not the worsed, you want to go to some of the other mac groups. Some of them are real nutters.
From: Jim on 14 Apr 2010 09:30 On 2010-04-14, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: >> >> I have a lovely mental image of some manager at JANET opening up ucsm, >> taking a look at a few threads, and saying, `Who are these nutters? >> What is this all about? We're paying *how much* for this?!' >> >> b. > > Would be funny. Mind you, this one's not the worsed, you want to go to > some of the other mac groups. Some of them are real nutters. It can be amusing (and/or horrifying) to dip into any of the .advocacy groups. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash.
From: James Jolley on 14 Apr 2010 09:40
On 2010-04-14 14:30:58 +0100, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> said: > On 2010-04-14, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: >>> >>> I have a lovely mental image of some manager at JANET opening up ucsm, >>> taking a look at a few threads, and saying, `Who are these nutters? >>> What is this all about? We're paying *how much* for this?!' >>> >>> b. >> >> Would be funny. Mind you, this one's not the worsed, you want to go to >> some of the other mac groups. Some of them are real nutters. > > It can be amusing (and/or horrifying) to dip into any of the .advocacy > groups. > > Jim There the ones I was thinking of. They're really mad in there you know, soft walls kind of mad. |