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From: brad@looking.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,sci.physics,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Parapsychology, Pro and Con: BBS Call for Commentators
Message-ID: <758@looking.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Mar-87 16:07:28 EST
Article-I.D.: looking.758
Posted: Tue Mar 17 16:07:28 1987
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Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <707@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>
>I would like to register an objection to BBS, Inc. conducting their for-profit
>business over this publicly funded network.

    This (uucp-net) is a privately owned, privately funded network. It
    has some government funded sites on it, but as a network it is no more
    publicly funded than the phone company, which the government pays to make
    calls via.

>With the present tension over the
>rising costs of net usage, such abuse of the purpose of the net is especially
>unwelcome now.  My tax and tuition money can be put to better use.
>--

    An entirely different point.  If you are calling for the removal of
    publicly funded institutions from the network, say that.  If you are
    saying the private owners of the net should not allow for-profit
    postings, that is up to them to decide.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473