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From: jsol@bu-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.stargate
Subject: Apology
Message-ID: <5197@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: Tue, 10-Mar-87 23:29:08 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 10 23:29:08 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Mar-87 20:45:29 EST
Organization: Boston U. Comp. Sci.
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I didn't want my message to sound so hostile. I am against stargate
because of the limitations and cost. Netnews was always a "free"
resource, at least to its end users. Free implies unlimited
distribtion. Stargate will elminaite that. If Stargate is willing to
allow the netnews newsgroups it carries to be distributed freely, and
restrict other services to those who pay for it, I would see that as
reasonable. As I mentionned in my previous message, the ARPA people
would be upset if postings from the ARPANET to netnews were being used
to make money. WTBS is clearly a for-profit organization, whether or
not Stargate is is probably of no concern to DARPA. The reason Stargate
must charge so much is precisely because WTBS wants to make money on
this.

Another point is, the cost of Stargate is higher than our current cost
of getting news (well, we have this internet connection, but even by
phone both Harvard and MIT-EDDIE have been good sources for news and
they are both local calls). Are you saying that we aren't paying our
"fair share" and that we *should* sign up for Stargate just because
it has our favorite newsgroups and nobody else will deliver them because
Stargate is restricting them? This is really unreasonable.

Hopefully this is a more thought out article. I'm sorry if my previous
article offended anyone.

Cheers,
--jsol