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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16,net.mail
Subject: Re: abuse of the net
Message-ID: <779@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Thu, 8-May-86 05:29:43 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  8 05:29:43 1986
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In article <306@sdcarl.UUCP>, tre@sdcarl.UUCP (Tom Erbe) writes:
> I logged on to the Atari Home Base BBS last night and found many useful
> programs.  However, I do not wish to pay for the phone time.  Would any
> one at Atari be willing to make these programs available by E-mail???
> 	thomas r. erbe
> 	{ucbvax,ihnp4,akgua,hplabs,sdcsvax}!sdcarl!tre

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.

This doesn't even rate a :v} because it's not funny.

Every morning I get up and say "why do I flame so much on the net when
I'm trying to be kinder in my personal life?"  Every night I run into these
bozos though...
-- 
John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu   jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa