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Sat Nov 1 10:14:45 UTC 1997

	I couldn't resist this:

On %m %N, "Greg A. Woods" <woods at most.weird.com> wrote: 

	[snip - about charging $500 spam-penalty.]

|Mabye you have to be like the phone company and charge a $500 deposit on
|all new accounts until some history has been established that indicates
|you're at least trustworthy on the surface.

	They do. Their name is NTT, Its about 670$ (72000yen) per
	line and your chances of getting it back are nil[1].

	this gets you 1 analogue line right. (for a bit more, you
	can have an ISDN line which is what I have now ..)

	Peter
	----*

[1] actually, you can sell your line right, but you wont get the
    full 72000yen back.

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