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From: billw@wolf.UUCP (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Expiration dates on OtherRealms
Message-ID: <496@wolf.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Jul-87 06:08:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: wolf.496
Posted: Fri Jul 31 06:08:15 1987
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In article <3646@well.UUCP> booter@well.UUCP (Elaine Richards) writes:

>Think of this, friends. Our tax dollars pay for a lot of UNIX sites.
>My tax dollars are currently padding Chuq's ego.

I challenge you to list fifty USENET sites that are paid for with our
tax dollars. There's seismo -- but not for long. There's hao (?) and various
sites at the Jet Propulsion Lab. Even if you peek at the map, I doubt you
will find many. If you find and list over one hundred I will personally
type the entire text of Tolstoy's WAR AND PEACE as penance, verifiable by
my system administrator.

Most -- nay, nearly all -- sites on USENET are paid for by private
corporations, individuals, or universities. Choose one. These folks are NOT
funded by tax dollars. Therefore, your reasoning has one helluva big hole in
it.

Perhaps next time you should reason your argument a bit more thoroughly
before posting.
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