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From: bp@pixar.UUCP (Bruce Perens)
Newsgroups: alt.sources,news.admin
Subject: unido making commercial use of the net
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Date: 22 Jun 89 16:15:26 GMT
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Reply-To: bp@pixar.UUCP (Bruce Perens)
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If unido is making such blatant commercial use of the usenet, why is
anyone giving them a newsfeed? If North American backbone sites adhered
to a policy to shut such sites down, removing the financial advangage,
it would become easier for Europeans to get the laws passed to allow a
U.S.-style usenet.

The U.S. has had a long struggle with monopolies - but we've even managed
to break up ATT, and are now left with only the U.S. Post Office (which
doesn't handle phone or computer communications as they do in Europe) as
an example of a monopolistic common carrier.
						Bruce Perens