Jeff,

I whole heartly agree.

> Jeff (not understanding why sane people expect good stuff to be
>      free) Vance, CSY

Or I would add, cost very little.   And a annual Interex membership costs
about as much as an annual subscription to a good newspaper.   Most
professional organizations I know of charge more.

I do however believe that Interex has been about as sucessful in explaining
it's value as CSY was in demonstrating to a critical public why MPE/iX
really had a significantly lower total cost of ownership.

Cortlandt Wilson
(650) 966-8555


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> Interex was a great asset in years past.

I agree, though I still see its value.

> But I get better support from groups like this one, and
> the annual membership fees can't be beat!

That's the rub, the basis for all of the commodity discussions
and a big problem MPE has suffered from: price, free, value
added.  3000-L is not free.  Jeff Kell and UTC run it on servers
that are not free, their electric bill still comes in each month,
they may do backups, etc. -- none of which are free.  If UTC, for
whatever reason, decides to not spend the money for this list, my
guess is that someone else will pick it up, but it won't be free
for them either.

Jeff (not understanding why sane people expect good stuff to be
      free) Vance, CSY

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