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Xref: sserve comp.sys.powerpc:35563 comp.sys.intel:33242 comp.unix.bsd:16373 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8283 comp.unix.sys5.r4:9436 comp.unix.misc:16382 comp.os.linux.development:24073 comp.os.linux.misc:36550 comp.os.386bsd.development:3297 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5598 comp.os.misc:3894 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!tmxbris!stallion.oz.au!stallion.com!uu4news.netcom.com!netcomsv!ix.netcom.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!news.mindlink.net!giant!a09878 From: a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.misc Subject: Re: flat rates for Internet/phone (Re: X on dial-in) Date: 14 Mar 1995 08:18:54 GMT Organization: MIND LINK! Communications Corp., Langley, BC, Canada Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3k3jhe$3ai@deep.rsoft.bc.ca> References: <D3s19v.4M7@pe1chl.ampr.org> <3jith7$81c@park.uvsc.edu> <3k1fh9$f19@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <3k219i$c2u@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: giant.mindlink.net In article <3k219i$c2u@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote: >I realize you're just being the devil's advocate, but the "fogeys" >in question are the accountants who want to continue to amortize >the 15 year old rural electro-mechanical switches another 5 years >to get the full 20 years out of them. No, the fogies are those who want to continue to amortise the five year old GE switches to get the full twenty years out of them. They might be willing to add ISDN to them, though, if you're willing to pay the arm and the leg that it costs to do so. cjs -- Curt Sampson a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca Opinions are mine, Fluor Daniel Wright, Ltd. 604 488 2226 not Fluor Daniel's. 1075 W. Georgia Street Vancouver, B.C., V6E 4M7 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.