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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Bogus loud warning messages
Message-ID: <1953@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 04:18:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1953
Posted: Mon Jun  1 04:18:52 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jun-87 05:41:22 EDT
References: <1216@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1216@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> garry@oak.cadif.cornell.edu writes:
> From a recent version of Pnews:
> 
> > This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire
> > civilized world.  You message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of
> > dollars to send everywhere.  Please be sure you know what you are doing.
> 
> Does this mean that someone is spending millions if not tens of millions
> of dollars per year to support 'soc.singles'?  
> 
> (Is it unethical to program in false warning messages?)
> 
> garry wiegand   (garry@oak.cadif.cornell.edu - ARPA)
> 		(garry@crnlthry - BITNET)

What makes you think that it's bogus?  Most sites that participate in usenet
spend thousands of dollars a year on telecommunications charges to receive and
redistribute news articles.  A thousand sites (conservative) at a thousand
(*very* conservative) dollars a year is a million dollars.  I would estimate
that the real total expenditure is 5-20 times this much.  Since the soc.xxx
groups are ~10% of the total volume, you can work out the details.

Talk it over with your news administrator.

-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
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