Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: EUnet, unido and USENET
Message-ID: <3704@looking.on.ca>
Date: 26 Jul 89 19:09:39 GMT
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Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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It is also worth noting that there's a lot more to being a central site
than the cost of getting your news.

Being a central site means you get a lot of mail routed through you.
Feeding 10 other sites full feeds is also not free.  It needs disk
space, modems, phone lines, spare CPU cycles and staff to manage it
all.

Many central sites have ended up getting computers just to do news/mail,
in part just to be nice to other people.  They money for this is not
chopped liver.

Why do people in this group insist on caring about the way that other
people run their own computers?  If you don't like what they do in
Europe, put "na" distributions on your articles.  The Europeans will
probably thank you for it.

I think a lot of non-anarchists are slipping into our little anarchy as
time goes by.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473