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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD users in Australia Date: 23 Dec 1995 13:26:26 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4bh022$c01@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4atk3a$itp@agate.berkeley.edu> <56a_9512201024@caamora.caamora.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <56a_9512201024@caamora.caamora.com.au>, Jonathan Michaels <jmichaels@caamora.caamora.com.au> wrote: >by the way, thier is a company here in australia that does mail order cds and >they have the walnut creek stuff, i just picked up the 2.0.5 release and they >told me that they will have the 2.1 release soon. i found them to be cheerful >and curtious and thier prices were good .. if jordan has no objection i will >post full contact details phone and internet .. they take email orders as well. I have no objections whatsoever. ANY way of getting ahold of FreeBSD CDs, whether they come from Walnut Creek CDROM or not, is good for the project. In this particular case, it looks like you've found a WC distributor and WC is always happy to have people buy things from its distributors - we wouldn't have many of them otherwise. :-) >sorry jordan i wanted to buy direct from walnut creek, but really can't afford >walnut creeks prices epecially from here in australia with the added bankdraft >fees .. its almost cheaper to fly thier and bring it back first class .. grin. :-) No offense taken, see above. Some people even call directly and say "your retail price is too high - can I get it cheaper?" and I refer them cheerfully to a distributor. As I've already noted in this newsgroup once before, the direct retail prices from WC are *intentionally* high so as to avoid undercutting their distributor base. Any information on such distributors is certainly welcome here, and perhaps it's time for us to make a local web page of all of them. I don't have access to that information myself, not being in the sales dept. Jordan