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From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicarious Oyster)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16,net.mail
Subject: Re: abuse of the net
Message-ID: <2206@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-May-86 17:32:14 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  9 17:32:14 1986
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In article <218@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes:
>In article <779@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>>Sure, let's let {ucbvax,ihnp4,akgua,hplabs,sdcsvax} pay so this guy can
>>play with his Atari.  After all, he can't afford it, but they
>>can.  In fact, why not just post the entire contents of the BBS to
>>the net -- then *everybody* can pay for the phone time.
>
>Please!  He didn't say he couldn't afford it; He said he didn't WISH
>to pay for the phone time.
>
>Somehow, that makes it worse.
>
   Here's the good part...

>			andy finkel
>			Commodore(Amiga)
>			{ihnp4|seismo|allegra}!cbmvax!andy
>		or	 pyramid!amiga!andy
>
   Some poor little guy who makes $3.07/hr flipping burgers at the local
snack bar is flamed for "abusing the net", while people like andy finkel
at Commodore feel free to use *my* tax dollars to support the Amiga!
Talk about people in glass houses!  Both of you guys should lighten up;
I'm sure there are people at hoptoad who spend money on things which, say,
Greg Woods at hao really doesn't give a flying fumigation about, but
do you see that nice guy with his ST (not Greg, the flamee) complaining?

(And before you point out that Commodore isn't the only company doing
this at our expense, I already know that.  It's just that when a 
representative (official or not) of an unmistakably for-profit company
flames some innocent citizen for "abuse", I get severely annoyed.)

 - Joel ({allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster)