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From: horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
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Subject: Re: New rules for UUPSI
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Date: 5 Mar 91 21:02:08 GMT
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In article <1991Mar04.221119.5075@utoday.com> sean@utoday.com (Sean Fulton) writes:
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<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.

Bullshit.  If they want to raise their rates, let them.  But they can't
stop you from passing along news.  They don't own it.

<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.

Well, if they're going to be assholes, just tell the people downstream from 
you to play around with the `Sender:' line.  What goes around comes around.

					--Scott

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