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From: wmartin@brl-vgr.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Commercial news feeds?
Message-ID: <1590@brl-vgr.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 8-May-84 11:26:41 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  8 11:26:41 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 12-May-84 08:33:23 EDT
Organization: Ballistics Research Lab
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As far as I know right now, USENET news feeds are done on a courtesy
basis, one site allowing another to call them to get the news items.
As uucp becomes proliferated into the micro world, it seems likely
that the sheer number of machines trying to get news feeds would
overwhelm this informal arrangement, even with the heirarchical
nature of the feed mechanism. At some time, it would seem likely that
access to USENET news would be made available on a commercial basis --
a site advertising that they will feed news to you for $n per connect
minute or some other accounting method. 

Does this yet exist? If not, is anybody planning to set up such a
service? 

Will