From: paul@openage.COM (Paul A. Fischer, Sr UNIX Sys Consultant)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: A prize to the unrewarded **READ THIS**
Date: 15 Apr 92 22:03:32 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
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The following is a comversation between Ed Hew and myself.  It's pretty 
self-explainitory.  You can either use the address I posted and send your 
donations to him directly, or you can send them to me care of Open Age Inc. and 
I will forward them to him.  Please make any donations out to Ed Hew.  I will 
wait until May 1, and then send out the first batch.  The donation I suggested 
is $10 US.  If you feel the want to do more please feel free.  I beleive we 
will all profit in the end.

Paul Fischer
Open Age Inc.
12209 Bayswater Rd.
Gaithersburg, Md. 20878 USA



>[In the message "Re: A prize to the unrewarded **READ THIS**", "Paul A. Fischer, Sr UNIX Sys Consultant" <paul@openage.COM writes... ]

>} >Paul A. Fischer, Sr UNIX Sys Consultant writes:
>} >> I would like to reward Ed Hew for all the hard work ...

>Wow!  This blew me away when I saw it.
>I was going to compose a suitable reply, but unfortunately

[Private stuff deleted]

>} >> I would also like to get Ed something for all his trouble.  I would 
>} >> like people to donate money to a fund which will be used to get Ed something he 
>} >> wants/needs.  I'm not sure about the legal problems, but I think we should just 
>} >> stick a check for $10 or so (each) in the mail and send it to him.  I think 
>} >> that for all the work he did, he deserves it.

>My first inclination was:  "wow, what a wonderful guesture!, but
>you really shouldn't - it's the thought that counts, and that
>means a _lot_."  Then I got to thinking....need more disk space
>to house all this stuff, and if I had it, I could expand the
>public archives (specifically of benefit to SCO users) and put
>up anon FTP, something there's not a lot of for SCO-useable code.

>I need an EISA motherboard so that I can go to 32 megs of RAM
>so that we don't swap like crazy while we process all this stuff.
>I need a nice caching (DPT) host adapter so that we're not I/O
>bound even when we don't swap.

>Lastly, I need an ODT capabable "notebook" so that I can deal
>with these issues on my frequent road trips, so..... I won't
>decline your kind and generous project.

>} >Two little problems:
>} 
>} >       Ed's mail address is not residing anywhere in my files, you have it?

>Paul, why don't you collect this all up, then my snail-mail address
>isn't of concern - you already have it.  This also solves banking
>problems.
> 
>} >       How much will the banks skim off a check for CN$10.00 if
>} >       it's issued on a non-Canadian account?
>} >       I'd just rather risk mailing currency.

>Well, if you simply collect up US$ in the U.S., then it's simple.
>If you send me a US$ cheque, my bank charges me nothing extra to
>deposit a US$ cheque to my US funds account.  As I do a fair bit
>of biz in the US, of course I maintain one of these, and it's very
>likely that anything I buy might be paid for in US$ anyway, so
>then there's no currency conversion fees at all.  No point making
>the banks rich, and certainly no point on making them rich on many
>little $10 transactions vrs one single larger transaction.

>How does this sound?

>               --ed


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