Ron C. Carman:
> What relevance? If you happen to have free net access, you can
> get the most recent material direct from rtfm or other sites. Anyone
> with net access doesn't need the cdrom.
That's precisely my point -- the CD-ROM distribution effectively increases
the spread of the 'net, just as do the other commercial net.access providers.
If you've got a free net acct, you don't need a commercial one.
If you've got a commercial acct, you don't need the CD-ROM.
Wouldn't you rather the non-connected became partially connected to such
a powerful source of information?
me:
>> * to gather all the information available on one of the Walnut Creek
>> CD-ROMs, a subscriber to a commercial net.service would have to pay
>> _significantly more_ than the price of the CD-ROM.
Ron C. Carman:
> False (and irrelevant, to boot). All a person needs to gather said
> info is an e-mail address, which can be had for free in many places..
Both true and relevant.
True: many commercial email accounts are volume charged (both in and out),
and most commercial net accounts are time-charged (the transaction is not
complete until they can _read_ the information, and that's not possible
until they've downloaded to their local computer, which takes modem time).
Relevant: Walnut Ck, by offering access to exactly the same information
as is provided by a commercial net.account, but for less, is in direct
competition with the net.access provider -- doesn't this make them
a provider of (partial) net.access?
.angus.
-- angus@mega.cgl.citri.edu.au graphics/animation postgrad melbourne, australia
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