From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 10 18:12:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA16034 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:12:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from urmel.ghb.fh-furtwangen.de (urmel.ghb.fh-furtwangen.de [141.28.224.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA16021 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:12:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@urmel.ghb.fh-furtwangen.de) From: freebsd@urmel.ghb.fh-furtwangen.de Received: by urmel.ghb.fh-furtwangen.de (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C91986139; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 03:11:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by urmel.ghb.fh-furtwangen.de (Postfix) with SMTP id 994D06138; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 03:11:33 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 03:11:33 +0100 (CET) To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: State of the union, 1999. In-Reply-To: <199901102146.WAA08170@yedi.iaf.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > AFAIK this is a generic problem. We have the same thing here in Europe > (maybe worse with regards to shipping cost). We are now lucky enough > to have FreeBSD CDs available in the shops (for NLG 50, say US$ 25-30 ; > not bad). Paraphernalia are probably not interesting for > local shops to carry. Yes, buying the CDs directly from WalnutCreek is getting increasingly harder to justify. In the early day they did manage to bundle cd shipments to Europe thus the 9$ charge was shouldered by more products. Now, with instant delivery there are times when CDs end up in my mailbox 2 - 3 days in the row and the shipping costs are noticeable. Would be nice if the surcharge for overseas shipment could be reduced a little, but in light of what Sun Microsystems expects a customer to pay in additional charges it is still dirt cheap... Keep up the good work, Carsten To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message