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From: bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: The elimination of certain non-technical newsgroups by so called "powers-that-be"
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Date: Thu, 8-May-86 16:43:40 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  8 16:43:40 1986
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I have no real trouble with whatever is going on by the backbone sites
(I don't think, but at least at a base philosophical level it's hard
to argue so I may as well concur.)

On the other hand, I still feel it's frustrating that a lot of this
would be unnecessary if the backbone sites *required* higher speed
connections, are the 2400 (and 4800, 9600) baud modems that now work
on asynch/voice lines really that hard to use effectively? It seems
from what people say about costs they could pay for themselves
quickly. What's the problem? If it's initial costs maybe we could pass
the hat around the net. If we could solve the problem with technology
why bother with all these politics etc?

	-Barry Shein, Boston University