Sat, 4 Dec 1993 00:03:28 +0100
|
I think one must not lose sight of the fact that, even on mainframes,
disk space is inexpensive. I've received a few price lists for the L-Soft
off-the-shelf business and it seems the market price for "second class"
disk space (meaning units not running off the latest whiz-bang
non-volatile write-through asynchronous migration cache controller and
with a slightly lower transfer rate, which are perfectly adequate for
storing list archives) is on the order of a few dollars per megabyte per
month. Most of these price lists are for "external" use with a very
definite profit. The price for on-campus use, which generally corresponds
to actual costs with a small margin, is more like $1/meg/month. Well, it
takes a lot of notebook editing before you save a megabyte, and then
you've just saved $12 a year. So unless you have a high volume list or
people post long messages, it's just not worth your time.
Eric
|
|
|