Jay Honeck wrote:

For extra money, I can get usenet and email access through
them, but it just didn't seem to make any sense to pay extra $$ just so
I can screw around on newsgroups.

Screw around?

Hypothetically, here, if I owned an aviation hotel my participation in the
aviation newsgroups would be considered a marketing expense, and therefore
the commercial Usenet monthly fee would be a business tax deduction. Thus,
the after tax expense would be around $1.50 per month for a reliable
connection to Usenet. Wouldn't take but one new customer per year to
justify that expense, no?

In your case, there is no doubt that you are getting hotel guests from your
participation in Usenet, as that is how I ended up there for one night last
summer and hopefully a longer stay sometime next summer.


--
Peter