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I was thinking the same thing after I wrote the post. But, I can't imagine any client with real-world stuff on their machine would be interested. However, I did wonder about the magazines that like to report on the AS/400, or the organizations like COMMON, or even some of our fellow subscribers to this list that already have AS/400s with TCP/IP installed and running. After running a real-world service they'd know all about security <bg>. I also did the math: 100 users at $9.95/month is nearly $12,000/year. Not great, but then, 100 users isn't many, either. On the other hand, 1,000 subscribers is well over $100,000. In <33F68D1E.52BF@ibm.net>, on 08/16/97 at 10:33 PM, "James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@ibm.net> said: > I'd be happy if they'd just set up an AS/400 and let us have accounts on > it, like we can do on Unix boxes everywhere. $18.95/month gets me a > dial-in Unix account, ($9.95/month if I telnet in) with all of the unix > time I could possibly want. > Do I smell an opportunity here? What would prevent a client of yours (or mine, or anyone's) from establishing such a service? -- ----------------------------------------------------------- boothm@earth.goddard.edu ----------------------------------------------------------- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This is the Midrange System Mailing List! To submit a new message, * * send your mail to "MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com". To unsubscribe from * * this list send email to MAJORDOMO@midrange.com and specify * * 'unsubscribe MIDRANGE-L' in the body of your message. Questions * * should be directed to the list owner / operator: david@midrange.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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