Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!bloom-beacon!think!redsox!campbell
From: campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: unido making commercial use of the net
Message-ID: <789@redsox.bsw.com>
Date: 24 Jun 89 00:56:20 GMT
References: <786@redsox.bsw.com> <114@utower.UUCP> <5523@pixar.UUCP>
Reply-To: campbell@redsox.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
Lines: 15

In article <5523@pixar.UUCP> bp@pixar.UUCP (Bruce Perens) writes:
-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.

Oh, right, why didn't *I* think of that?  I'm sure that if we cut off their
news feeds, all the governments of Europe would *instantly*, on bended
*knees*, divest their monopoly phone systems, invite the US carriers in
to do battle on their turf, and give out Trailblazers as door prizes...
-- 
Larry Campbell                          The Boston Software Works, Inc.
campbell@bsw.com                        120 Fulton Street
wjh12!redsox!campbell                   Boston, MA 02146