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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Results of sci.aquaria vote
Message-ID: <1989Nov18.221348.7369@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 18 Nov 89 22:13:48 GMT
References: <10397@encore.Encore.COM>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <10397@encore.Encore.COM> by cook@pinocchio.Encore.COM (Dale C. Cook):
+---------------
| Boy, I usually don't take on the net.pharts, but this must be my day
| to get lucky.  :-)
| 
| [chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) recently posted that: 
| |Point of order. Most folks have a 'right' to participate in USENET decisions
| |only at the sufference of the people in charge of USENET. The people in
| 
| afternoon...)  If the recent experiences in Eastern Europe say anything,
| they say to me that you should never count out the (seemingly)
| disenfranchised will of the majority.  USENET may not be a democracy,
| but it too must exist at the sufference of its users.  Take away the
| people and you've got a useless collection of modems and wires with
| "great potential" to do something!
+---------------

Take away the money and you get the same situation.  Just who do you think you
are to *demand* that I finance your daily Usenet fix?

Like it or not, the Usenet exists at the whim of the people who pay for it.
Antagonize them and you'll have to find someone else to pay for it, or the net
dies.  The phone company isn't going to be impressed with your arguments; they
expect to be paid.  (Disbelievers are invited to subscribe to alt.cosuard.)

++Brandon
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