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From: glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Re: newsgroup reorg
Message-ID: <183@cognos.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Sep-86 18:10:12 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 11 18:10:12 1986
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... 
>    The only thing that makes Usenet possible is the time and money of a
>    relatively small collection of sites and people who do the work of
>    writing news software, who try to track down and solve problems in
>    the network, and who pay the (often enormous) phone bills to
>    ship *YOUR* newsgroups around the country and around the world.
...
>    in addition to their real jobs.  (You don't think anyone gets paid
>    to keep Usenet running, do you?)  They do it in spite of the aggravation
...
>    The single most important thing that people seem to have forgotten
>    is that without the efforts of Rich Adams, Gene Spafford, Mark
>    Horton, and others like them (other backbone admins, please don't
>    take offense at not being listed explicitly), *there wouldn't be
>    a Usenet for you to flame on or about!*
> 
>    USENET IS NOT A GOD-GIVEN RIGHT.  IT'S A PRIVILEGE MADE POSSIBLE
>    BY A SMALL NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO WORK HARD TO KEEP IT ALL RUNNING.
>    I, for one, appreciate the efforts these people put forth.  You
>    should too.
...
> -- 
>  Matt Landau      	 		BBN Laboratories, Inc.


Very well put! Couldn't agree with you more!!!

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