joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel) (01/01/91)
I read a lot about the discussion what to prefer, a newsgroup or the Coherent-Mailing-list. The following is my opinion: I have no possiblities to ftp so I couldn't get software from /pub/coherent. MWCBBS is (from Germany) too expensive ( 16 Cents for 4.45 seconds). I as a private person have to pay for EMAIL ( 30 Cents/kb ). On the other side it's easier to receive News from the german SUBNET, I now just have the transmission costs. So a Newsgroup like comp.os.minix for Coherent is for me the only affordable solution. I don't want to be a second class coherent user just because of the fact I live in Germany and didn't work at a company or a university with the possiblity to receive/send mail free of charge. Joachim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Joachim Riedel joachim@jrix.radig.de Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse 48 D-6050 Offenbach am Main Tel. +49 69 85 62 25 ----------------------------------------------------------------------