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From: news@orcenl.uucp (News adm'r, Bjorn Engsig)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: unido making commercial use of the net
Keywords: Nothing is "free"
Message-ID: <2116.orcenl@orcenl.uucp>
Date: 26 Jun 89 10:59:13 GMT
References: <786@redsox.bsw.com> <114@utower.UUCP> <5523@pixar.UUCP>
Reply-To: news@orcenl.UUCP (News admnr. Bjorn Engsig)
Organization: ORACLE Europe, The Netherlands
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In article <5523@pixar.UUCP> bp@pixar.UUCP (Bruce Perens) writes:
>it would become easier for Europeans to get the laws passed to allow a
>U.S.-style usenet.
I dont't feel it is appropriate to discuss if we should try to bypass any
laws here; many articles have already explained how the European tele-
communication network is working, and that is what our mail/news service has
to be based upon.

One thing we (as a mail/news community) can and do decide about is how
we organize our selves, and I really don't think that very many of us would
like an organization like the U.S.-style.  Right now, we share the costs
on a very fair base; the CPU cycles, the disk space, the whole organizations 
is shared, and the result is that we have a reliable network.
It IS a matter of costs, all this is NOT free, and even though some US
sites announce that any European (or other) site can have some of their CPU
cycles, disk space and organization, please remeber that this IS paied by
someone; CPU cycles, disk space and manpower are NOT free.

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