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From: lear@aramis.rutgers.edu (eliot lear)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Expiration dates on OtherRealms
Message-ID: <1198@aramis.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sun, 2-Aug-87 23:21:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: aramis.1198
Posted: Sun Aug  2 23:21:28 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 3-Aug-87 03:45:55 EDT
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To: billw@wolf.UUCP

Cc: lear@aramis.rutgers.edu


In article <496@wolf.UUCP> billw@wolf.UUCP (Bill Wisner) writes:
>
> 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.
 
The above is a perfect example of misleading information.  A huge cost
of USENET is the communication of news. The federal government
subsidizes most of the cost of such transfers by supplying
(underhandedly) networks such as the ARPAnet.  Take a good look at the
backbone.  Most of the sites are on a network like the ARPAnet which
is mostly paid for by the federal government.
-- 
Eliot Lear
Rutgers University Department of Mathematics
[lear@rutgers.edu]