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From: kathy@bakerst.UUCP (Kathy Vincent)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.news
Subject: Re: Existence of Usenet Inc.
Message-ID: <265@bakerst.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Oct-86 21:49:52 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  1 21:49:52 1986
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Summary: Time Marches On


Another aspect of the truth of the matter is that the backbone
sites don't *have* to carry news at all.  Without them, there
might be no net at all.  I know *I* couldn't afford to foot
their bills.  I can barely afford to foot my own.  If they
ever turn this into a subscription service (shhhh!), well ...

Let's face it.  Nothing ANYONE does is going to make EVERYONE
happy.  Nothing.  Not all of the changes make ME happy either. 
But the scheme looks liveable and workable - certainly for now.

This is, I believe, the first such reorganization, yes?
Let's try it out, learn from it.  Either we'll like it just
fine after a while - and fight like hell over the next
reorganization - or we'll learn from it, have another
reorganization - and fight like hell over *that* reorganization!

Cheers.



Kathy
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