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From: pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham)
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Subject: Re: RN bothering users about groups "not in .newsrc"
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Date: 15 Nov 90 20:39:49 GMT
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jpp@tygra.ddmi.com (John Palmer) writes:

|Oh - by the way - forget getting news patches from UUNET. They've cut
|off their 800 number. The only way to access their system via anonymous
|uucp is to dial a 900 number. I didn't think they'd stoop so low, but
|thats life.

does this mean uunet previously sanctioned toll-free anonymous uucp to
their site and now (or recently) they've turned it off?  that's what
the statement above implies and if it's not correct it would seem you
should apologize for impugning the good name of uunet.

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