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Aucbvax.6449 fa.works utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!works Tue Mar 9 18:36:18 1982 Administrivia - Archives. >From JSOL@Usc-Eclc Tue Mar 9 01:18:43 1982

Hi,

Finally I have what I believe is the total cost for printing and mailing the archives to WorkS to those who can't otherwise retrieve them. I'm sorry if this seems a bit much, but I'm only charging actual costs and not making any money on it.

The CPU/PRINT charges for printing the WorkS archives are $25.00

The postage charges for mailing the WorkS archives (cheapest route) are $10.00

Therefore, if you want me to send you the archives via UsSnail, it will cost you $35.00.

Unfortunately, this will have to be charged in advance. Sorry, guys. I will update the "Hello" message I send to new members of WorkS to reflect this charge. I had no idea it costed that much myself!

Send your check for $35.00 to:

WorkS Archives, c/o Jon Solomon PHE 204 USC-ECL University Park Los Angeles, CA 90007.

Once your check arrives and is processed by my bank, I will print and mail you a copy of the archives. Be sure and include a return address.

UUCP users: I have been asked many times to remail a copy of the WorkS archives to users on the UUCP network one digest at a time. This cannot be done. There would be about 50 or 60 messages, each about 18K characters long. Can you imagine how long it will take to process all that at 300 baud?

As always, If you have access to an Arpanet machine, you can FTP the files from USC-ECLB, in the directory <JSOL.WORKS>. The files are WORKS.RECENT, which contains all issues for the current volume, and VOLUME-1.TXT which contains all messages previous to 1 January 1982, when I started volume 2. In addition, if you are willing to mail me a magtape (2400 foot), and return postage (I don't know how much), then I will be happy to mail you a copy of the archives in this form.

Cheers, --JSol

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