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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Re: BBS software for sale
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Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 20:11:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 21 20:11:41 1985
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The DOD Internet is the largest real network.
Its only relation to Usenet lies in the gatewaying
of traffic between the two.  Someone pointed out
that net.micro.apple is no longer gatewayed to
the INFO-APPLE Internet mailing list; I don't
know why it was dropped (maybe because of such
commercial postings).

There is still the moral and practical point that
netnews postings are relayed by telephone among
zillions of sites, which must pay the phone bills.
Several of the large backbone sites have dropped
netnews or are starting to impose restrictions on
it, due to the system load and communication
expense.  Under these circumstances, it is
inappropriate to clutter technical newsgroups
with commercial advertisements.

Usenet has no equivalent of the Internet traffic
monitors, so is reliant on the cooperation and
common sense of its users.  Some of us are
skeptical about its long-term viability..