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From: karl@ddsw1.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Mark Ethan Smith: For real?
Message-ID: <233@ddsw1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Oct-87 10:05:10 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  2 10:05:10 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Oct-87 04:46:36 EDT
References: <1535@epimass.EPI.COM> <21054@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger)
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In article <21054@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair) writes: 
# In the referenced article, jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes: 
# 	And given that he is 
# 	charged money for use of violet.berkeley.edu and his only 
# 	use of the system is for news and mail, it seems reasonable 
# 	for him to expect that they will be maintained. 
#  
# Mark may be paying for the use of violet, but that payment does 
# not mean any guarantee of netnews service; as both Mike Meyer and 
# I noted, netnews at the UCB Computer Center is an unsupported 
# software system, maintained by Mike when he has time out from his 
# other official duties. 
#  
# If Mark wants guaranteed netnews service, he should petition Academic 
# Computing Services to make netnews an officially supported service. 
 
Or, for that matter, he can subscribe to a location which does offer 
supported Netnews service to the public at large, as we do here (which  
he's incidentally done). 
 
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