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Subject: Re: abuse of the net
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Date: Sun, 18-May-86 16:39:08 EDT
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> I don't see why UNIX machines should be expected to pay for distributing
> software and discussions for other operating systems.  Why can't they
> set up their own network?  Disk space and phone lines aren't free for
> machines that run UNIX anymore than they are for machines that run
> mac/amiga/ST/PC-DOS/VMS/whatever.

Because there is a large base of users of those machines that happen to be
using Unix machines to communicate. The reality is that USENET hasn't been
a unix network for a long time, just a network that uses Unix. If you're
serious about limiting yourself to Unix discussions, we need to kill everything
else off except Unix, which would kill the net.

chuq

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