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From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: An apology, and a question (about uucp in Germany)
Message-ID: <16724@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 23 Jun 89 04:52:56 GMT
References: <786@redsox.bsw.com> <1433@laura.UUCP> <16720@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <765@ctisbv.UUCP>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Plano TX
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In article <765@ctisbv.UUCP> pim@ctisbv.UUCP (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
>In article <16720@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>|My phone bill runs $60 to $100 per month.  I don't see what is so awful
>|expecting someone to spend $40 to $200 a month for USENET. 
>
>I think you misunderstood Bodo. The $40..$200 is just a subscription fee.
>You have to pay the phone bill as well!

I think you missed the point.  The point is if you want to play the
game you have to pay the prices.

Living in a country with repressive telecommunications monopolies does
not grant you the right to spend the money of foreign nationals just
because they don't have a repressive telephone company.

USENET is not a god given right, contrary to the opinions of a number
of Germans who don't want to pay for it, but seem to have no trouble
expecting us to.
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