Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!van-bc!mdivax1!mitchell Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Your articles sold for cash. Message-ID: <1990Aug2.150036.3706@mdivax1.uucp> Date: 2 Aug 90 15:00:36 GMT References: <5414@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1749@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> Reply-To: mdivax1!bb29c!mitchell (Bill Mitchell) Organization: Mobile Data International, Richmond, B.C., Canada Lines: 25 Return-Path: Apparently-To: van-bc!rnews In article <1749@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> eesrajm@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Andrew J Michael) writes: > > .... info about MINIX Centre ..... > >If the feeling of the net is that The MINIX Centre desist from distributing >Usenet postings and articles then it will do so. It just seems a pity that >such a thing should have to happen because of a misunderstanding about the >commercial necessities of keeping The MINIX Centre in operation. > >Comments please ??? > >From what I've read here and in other recent net postings on this matter, it sounds as if the MINIX Centre is providing a useful and valuable service at a bargain price. I would vote that they continue to provide this service. I, for one, would be grateful for a similar service here in the USofA. I do a bad job of keeping track of all the good stuff which is posted here. I'd happily pay a reasonable fee to support the efforts of someone else who would do a better job, and make the results of their efforts available to me. I'd be in hog heaven if I could order a distribution kit of uucp, [swu]mail, cc68, etc, etc. thru the mail for a few dollars per disk and receive a well-organized and up-to-date kit in returm.