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From: cook@pinocchio.Encore.COM (Dale C. Cook)
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Subject: Results of sci.aquaria vote
Summary: Really about cooperation and USENET
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Date: 20 Nov 89 18:08:39 GMT
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[allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) recently posted that: 
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|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?
|
But so long as the burden is widely distributed and no one site is asked to
pay more than a fair share..  And how is it that YOU finance MY news fix??
If you pass an uncensored feed to your leaf sites, you may hope that whomever
feeds you your news will not filter out those groups that you (and your
employer) feel are worthwhile.  Sounds like cooperation to me.

|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
|-- 
I have no problems with that.  I'd point out to you that telephone costs
are becoming a "cost of doing business" line item these days.  I'd further
point out that newspapers and TV stations are private businesses in it
for a profit.  But when they start dicky-dooing with what gets covered
and who gets broadcast they have to conform to the "rules" set up by the
majority.  Obviously any site on USENET can set up any damn policy it
can pay for.  But if enough other sites don't like those policies, you
might find yourself an island with a lot of pretty computer hardware
and a lot of modems and nobody to talk to or exchange news with.

        - Dale (N1US)   Encore Computer Corporation, Marlborough, Mass.

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