From: horus@yabbs
To: rlion@yabbs
Subject: re: free acces unix
Date: Sun Oct 31 16:13:06 1993
Sounds like some people like to pay  far more for something  than it's 
worth, and probably shop on Rodeo Drive to boot. Internet access can be 
purchased from $5 to $40 per month and that includes either a T1 or a DSN3 
line from the provider to the internet.  Why would you pay $800 for a set 
up fee just to get Novell's LAN Workplace when  SLIPP drivers are avialble 
as public domain on the internet. And why would you pay  $100 per month 
for  access just because the provider thinks he has a neat service????
Its like two adds in the Computer shopper where one vendor is selling the 
same product for a $1000 more than  the vendor on the previous page. Let 
the buyer be ware.  As for university's compulsion to prevent the access 
to telnet, and ftp, it seems silly since the same service is provided for 
a minimal fee by the same unviersity  to  local business and  social 
groups.  Who is more a threat to internet, some beginner in CS, or  a Wall 
street type  with a motive. The  Computer underground  people know where 
to get access, and dont bother with silly sites like NYX.