On Tue, 15 Aug 1995 01:16:18 +0200 Eric Thomas said:
>On Mon, 14  Aug 1995 16:40:11 CDT  Chris Barnes <[log in to unmask]>
>said:
>
>>We very  nearly lost ALL Lsoft  products for this year  because the unix
>>bigots tend to love the freebe products (never mind performance).
>
>That's a problem  we have to face  every day, but I'm afraid  I don't see
>how the  extra $550 make any  difference. It's a problem  you're going to
>have no matter how  much we charge. You could always  divide $550 by your
>non-lunar hourly  manpower cost for  unix programmers and tell  them that
>they have  that many  hours to  move all  the lists  to the  freebies and
>provide  comparable  service.  By  the time  they've  expended  $1000  in
>manpower and still aren't providing  good service, you can ask management
>to draw conclusions :-)
 
 
It's not a question of using Listserv or a competing product.  It's a
question of using Listserv or nothing at all.  Deleting all the lists
would undoubtedly save money (in software costs, machine resources,
& personel time).
 
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