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From: merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer)
Subject: Re: BITFTP grief!
Message-ID: <1991May20.064047.13740@iguana.uucp>
Organization: Ed (the iguana) Memorial Society
References: <1991May16.224338.286@crom2.uucp> <1991May18.043931.7094@iguana.uucp> <1991May19.183202.5575@sceard.Sceard.COM>
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Date: Mon, 20 May 91 06:40:47 GMT

In article <1991May19.183202.5575@sceard.Sceard.COM> mrm@Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) writes:
>In article <1991May18.043931.7094@iguana.uucp> merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer) writes:
>[...]
>>
>>too fucking bad, better your money/time/disk than mine.
>>
>>-- 
>>[ Jim Mercer  work: jim@lsuc.on.ca  home: merce@iguana.uucp  +1 519 570-3467 ]
>>[             "Anarchists Unite!" - seen spray painted on a wall             ]
>
>Clearly a forgery, since Jim would never write such a line, especially since he
>doesn't write the check for the bill for an Internet connection, and it isn't
>his money (or disk, for that matter). Might be his time, but he probably gets
>paid for it, as is implied by the "work:" in the .sig.
>
>Again, clearly a forgery.

not a forgery.  (changed my .sig as it seems to conflict with my actions
according to some of the email i've gotten.)

the "mine" in the message, was an organizational "mine", as opposed to a
personal "mine".

the money/time/disk is paid for by my employer, but that does not imply that
it is open to use by any person with an email account.

also, my paid time is supposed to be directed at supporting the other
employees.  much of the news and mail administration is done on my own
free time.

we, like many other systems on USENET, store and forward news and mail out
of a co-operative spirit.

seems to me that the direction of the net is towards greed and ignorance.

dare i say, immenent (sp?) death of the net(tm).

-- 
[ Jim Mercer   work: jim@lsuc.on.ca  home: merce@iguana.uucp  +1 519 570-3467 ]
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