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From: slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Causes on the net...
Message-ID: <316@sesame.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Sep-85 21:39:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: sesame.316
Posted: Mon Sep  2 21:39:43 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Sep-85 06:28:24 EDT
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I must agree with lauren and others who have posted.  The idea
of letting special interest groups, no matter how laudable their
goals, use the net as a 'free' communications medium is both unfair
to the current users/sites and could significantly speed the death of
usenet.

Sites can only aford so much comm time and disk storage before they 
drop out, and once the backbone drops out, the net can no longer 
function.  

(Also, I can see a politicaly 'hot' group like this being formed
causing a few systems to drop out...is it worth it?)

I agree with a previous posting: let them set up a PC BBS and use
PC Pursuit if they want to keep their costs down.


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