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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!uunet.ca!uunet.ca!fw.novatel.ca!sidney.novatel.ca!hpeyerl From: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: BSD CD-ROM : Walnet Creek or Infomagic ? Date: 5 Jan 1995 05:37:10 GMT Organization: NovAtel Communications Ltd. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3eg0i7$j2u@fw.novatel.ca> References: <3e8t0q$gnp@vishnu.jussieu.fr> <3edfnv$4i5@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> <3edj15$csp@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <tporczykD1vI9u.Cuo@netcom.com> <3edq1l$otn@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidney.novatel.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote: : I believe he's talking about the Walnut Creek CDROM subscription scheme : for FreeBSD, which I actually forgot to even mention in my last post : (thanks, Nate). : You have a 3rd alternative to paying $39.95 - you can buy a subscription to the : FreeBSD CDROM. It's $24.95 then, and you get sent a CD each time a new one : ships (at $25). You can also cancel your subscription at any time, so it's : actually a pretty good deal for anyone keen on FreeBSD. Just call (or email : or FAX) Walnut Creek CDROM and ask for a *FreeBSD subscription*, not a FreeBSD : CD. They'll send you your first CD at $24.95 and every subsequent version : publsihed by them at the same price until you decide you want to stop (or we : all drop dead from fatigue :-). Send mail to (or finger) info@cdrom.com for : more info. Err, Would all FreeBSD core team members who are also being paid by Walnut Creek stop blatantly advertising in the newsgroups please? This is starting to sound like a spray-on-hair-infomercial... "Welcome to the Marketing Superhighway" -- hpeyerl@novatel.ca | NovAtel Communications Ltd. hpeyerl@beer.org | <nothing I say matters anyway> On your birthday 10/02 322 BC: Aristotle dies of indigestion. [hmm]