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From: cyrill@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Cyro Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Bitnet gateways?
Message-ID: <2038@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
Date: 9 Oct 89 17:25:08 GMT
References: <1989Oct3.234604.10248@NCoast.ORG> <31716@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <584@trwrc.RC.TRW.COM> <31774@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: cyrill@scicom.UUCP (Cyro Lord)
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In article <31774@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes:
>>Should I frown when your uunet mail comes across to my internet?
>Once more, in English, please?
>UUNET does not exist to route mail for the known universe. It exists to
>provide bidirectional mail and news service to its customers. Any other
>services provided (like, say, the devastatingly large anonymous FTP
>area) are secondary. If they get in the way of UUNET's primary purpose,
>they may go away.

I don't understand what Bill's function is with 'uunet' and wish someone
would tell me. As a dues paying member of 'USENIX', it seem to me that
if 'uunet' can't provide both services to it's paying customers and the
USENET at large, why did we start 'uunet' in the first place. As a down
stream site, what does 'uunet' do for me that 'USENIX' should fund it
in the first place unless the funds it makes do something for the member-
ship that i'm not aware of at this time. As to the FTP area, that only works
for internet sites which may or may not need this service from 'uunet'
and excludes most uucp only sites from the same service of getting programs
that are stored for downloading.

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