Posted by Bill Vermillion on 10/23/05 14:45

In article <evbll1tm199hm2q50qcelmbbnn5oc8io7s@4ax.com>,
Bill G <niobrara969@none.invalid> wrote:
>On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 21:05:01 GMT, bv@wjv.com (Bill Vermillion) wrote:
>
>>The list price of the ST-150 probably scares many off, but I found
>>a place that sold it for $419 - shipping included. Their sites
>>says they will ship within 48 hours. I checked and my order was
>>picked up by UPS about 4 hours after I placed it, and got to me
>>2 days early. So good price and fast service is hard to find.
>>
>>If you [or anyone else] wants the name of the place you can send me
>>email - as I don't like to post commercial things on Usenet -
>>having that inbred into my motions here since I got on the 'net
>>in about 1984. [My address has been 'real' since I got on the 'net
>>and with proper filters spams is not a problme. [Unix systems and
>>my own mail server]
>
>About the only time it's unacceptable to post a commercial reference
>is when someone is hawking their own site. If you've found a place
>that offers quality goods, at a fair price, and treats the customer
>well, I don't know why you'd hesitate to share that info. Big thumbs
>down to the group of folks who "trained" you back in 1984. :)

In those days much transport was on Arpa net and since a lot was
government funded - I remember a lot of posts going through
'seismo' - there was to be NO commercial annoucment or appearances
thereof.

And since anything on the 'net lives forever - I can find posts of
mine from the late 1980's - nothing is more frustrating than
an http link on information that no longer exists. I'd just as
soon have real information.

And though a vendor may be good today, there is no indication they
will be a year from now - and I'd hate to have people browing old
posts and getting ripped off if the vendor had changed - and blame
me for that.

I often get mail from things I've posted years ago.

And no one 'trained' me. It was reading the Netiquette, reading
the dos/don'ts and learning how to program serial ports to talk
with modems and then setting up UUCP for connection to other sites
via telephone. My old site in 1986/7 was usually in the top-500
of usenet transport sites. All on two high-speed modems [ getting
about 19K throughput before the rest of the world had 9600 working
properly] and keeping both phone lines running almost coninually.

Bill

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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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