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From: mbell@cie.uoregon.edu (Max Bell)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: New rules for UUPSI
Message-ID: <1991Mar05.190548.22965@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 91 19:05:48 GMT
References: <1991Mar04.221119.5075@utoday.com>
Reply-To: mbell@cie.uoregon.edu (Max Bell)
Organization: Campus Information Exchange, University of Oregon
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In article <1991Mar04.221119.5075@utoday.com> of news.admin,
sean@utoday.com (Sean Fulton) wrote:

}I just got a letter from PSI that is kind of disturbing. 
}
}The thrust of this letter is that they are changing terms of user
}contracts to say that since we're paying so little for a News/Mail
}feed, we can't turn around and feed anyone else.
}
}I'm not sure how they plan to enforce this, but the new terms state
}that mail for ``another organization'' can not be sent nor received
}through PSI, and that if you send your UUPSI news feed to another
}site, no posts from that site can come back through PSI.

Seems like one possible response would be to stop feeding PSI sites any
Usenet news from the rest of the net, and drop all mail destined for PSI
sites into /dev/null.  The net works through co-operation.  If PSI doesn't
want non-PSI traffic taking up their resources, the rest of the net
should respond in kind.

 /\  /\/ Max Bell              | I used to think I'd emmigrate to escape the
/  \/ /\ mbell@cie.uoregon.edu | tyrants, but now I think I'll stay and make
------------------------------ | them leave instead.