Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tiamat!jim From: jim@tiamat.fsc.com (Jim O'Connor) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: usenet distributions Message-ID: <630@tiamat.fsc.com> Date: 21 Jul 89 02:20:25 GMT References: <316@mplex.UUCP> <464@moegate.UUCP> <3387@epimass.EPI.COM> Organization: Filtration Sciences - Chattanooga,TN Lines: 17 In article , bob@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes: > Socially: it wouldn't be polite to pass traffic through an > intermediary that wasn't receiving the benefit of that traffic for > its own users (though if they were willing and either friendly or Sounds like mail to me :-). There's a lot of traffic that goes through this system (which I don't mind, we all do it, or the uucp mail system wouldn't work) which I don't benefit (much) from. Why wouldn't the same work for news? Perhaps I don't get any benefit out of passing the traffic, but perhaps the other two sites would return the favor by passing distributions that they won't keep, but that I will. ------------- James B. O'Connor jim@tiamat.fsc.com Filtration Sciences Corporation 615/821-4022 x. 651 *** Altos users unite! mail to "info-altos-request@tiamat.fsc.com" ***