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From: jay@ethos.UUCP (Jay Denebeim)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: New newsgroup proceedures, voting..
Message-ID: <451@ethos.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Mar-86 02:44:35 EST
Article-I.D.: ethos.451
Posted: Sun Mar 16 02:44:35 1986
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References: <5075@alice.uUCp> <3326@sun.uucp> <1195@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> <1989@hao.UUCP> <1256@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: jay@ethos.UUCP (Jay Denebeim)
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In article <1256@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> gds@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Greg Skinner) writes:
>From the mail I've recieved so far, and judging from past experiences,
>I've decided that democratic procedure won't work for USENET, at least
>not until either (1) a far cheaper transport mechanism is used, or (2)
>all the sites share the cost of USENET (like in Europe).  Until, then,
>sadly to say, the backbone will have the final word, because they have
>the power to discontinue whatever groups they wish.

	What about using PC Pursuit for some of the network costs?  Admittedly,
I'm a new user, and am only familiar with micros, but it sounds like a good
idea to me.


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