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From: larry@jc3b21.UUCP (Lawrence F. Strickland)
Newsgroups: net.mail,net.news.config,net.news.newsite
Subject: Re: Looking for Chicago Usenet Access
Message-ID: <463@jc3b21.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Sep-86 09:19:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: jc3b21.463
Posted: Tue Sep 16 09:19:13 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Sep-86 23:59:08 EDT
References: <964@hou2g.UUCP> <5082@cbrma.UUCP> <2531@cbosgd.UUCP> <663@looking.UUCP>
Organization: St. Petersburg Junior College, FL
Lines: 39
Summary: How about colleges/universities
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In article <663@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP writes:
> In article <2531@cbosgd.UUCP> mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) writes:
> >
> >The net is noncommercial, but that doesn't mean every host on it is
> >noncommercial. 
> >
> >Similarly, a public access host like chinet or well might be a general
> >purpose UNIX machine, run by a ``computer center'' like entity, which
> >charges for access to the machine, and happens to have connections
> >into Usenet and/or UUCP.  Chinet can't charge for the right to receive
> >or send mail or news, but they can charge for the machine resources on
> >chinet consumed by a user receiving or sending mail or news.
> 
> Actually, as far as I can see, there is nothing stopping any site from
> charging for the right to receive or send mail and news.  Many sites already
> ...

As long as we are discussing this, how about colleges and universities?
In most cases, a student may only gain access to a computer by taking
(and paying for) classes.  Does that mean the college is charging for
access to UseNet?  If the answer is NO, they are just paying for the class,
anyone can access UseNet, then try and get a User ID on some computer if you
are not:  a) taking classes, b) in a specific department (CS, CE, ...), or
c) your parents OWN the college.  Its almost impossible!

Lets face it, UseNet is a 'free', 'non-commercial', 'non-profit' source
ONLY in its distribution.  What happens after that may include any of the
above or NONE of them.



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