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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: 8 Mar 91 20:59:11 GMT
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In article <starship-21ZNA9@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <29257@cs.yale.edu> horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) writes:
<< 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.
<
<But they can refuse to accept news from third parties.

Indeed they *can*.  Whether that's a good policy is a different matter.

<Since this third-party news
<will eventually find its way into the Internet and loop back around through
<UUPSI anyway, they're not even saving anything on this, just slowing it
<down. Sounds a bit thick to me.

Right.  And presumably their feeds come in long-distance, so they're paying
for news which they could've received for nothing!  They obviously just want
to be assholes.

<Now third-party mail, that I can understand. That's a reasonable restriction.

Yes, as you can't let people send their mail through you and stick you with
the huge long-distance charges.

					--Scott

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