Xref: utzoo alt.sources:808 news.admin:6135 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!shlump.dec.com!michaud From: michaud@decvax.dec.com (Jeff Michaud) Newsgroups: alt.sources,news.admin Subject: Re: unido making commercial use of the net Message-ID: <3281@shlump.dec.com> Date: 29 Jun 89 21:01:44 GMT References: <1552bis@stl.stc.co.uk> <786@redsox.bsw.com> <114@utower.UUCP> <5523@pixar.UUCP> Sender: news@shlump.dec.com Followup-To: alt.sources Lines: 16 In article <1552bis@stl.stc.co.uk>, dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) writes: > Right on, close down all those disgusting commercial sites that charge for > news access. Starting with uunet - that would REALLY show unido where they > stand, that's where they get their feed from (via mcvax). Over commercial > lines too - mcvax even have a high speed leased line to uunet to keep the > costs down. Since when is "uunet" a commercial site? Its non-profit last I heard. BTW, what is all this talk.* type grabage doing in the alt.sources newsgroup anyways? (and people wonder why the real source newgroups are moderatered!) -- /--------------------------------------------------------------\ |Jeff Michaud michaud@decwrl.dec.com michaud@decvax.dec.com| |DECnet-ULTRIX #include | \--------------------------------------------------------------/