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to: BILL CHEEK
from: RICK WILSON
date: 1997-05-16 21:39:00
subject: BBS DOWN - INTERNET GROWS

Howdy Bill!!
Thursday May 15 1997 21:36, Bill Cheek wrote to JOHN GARDNER:
 BC> If you are a serious and fairly experienced Internetter, then check
 BC> out the smaller, local ISP's - not the national giants.
But, watch what happens when the advent of flat-rate fees are dumped.
With the FCC imposing the extra fees per phone line, the smaller ISPs are 
going to have to pass the cost along to the customers.
 BC> I don't think these Uniden Trunk radios are good for anything but
 BC> Motorola systems, so.........????
Read in MT about yet another police dept who's having major problems with the 
GE/Ericsson digital system.  Looks like KC isn't the only one who's a little 
pissed about their service.
 BC> In a word, I think radio itself is on the way out.  After all, what
 BC> is
 BC> the purpose of radio?  Communication?  Right.  And there are better
 BC> tools and means for communication now than radio as we know it.
Gee, we've been Mr. Doom & Gloom lately, haven't we? :)  Is the world coming 
to an end at the millenium, too?
Rick - rush2112@ct2.nai.net
... I mustanottagottalotta sleep last night.
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