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From: tmanos@aocgl.UUCP (Theodore W. Manos)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Actually *defending* Portal's abuse of the net???
Message-ID: <23.UUL1.3#935@aocgl.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 88 06:23:39 GMT
References: <6040@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Alpha Omega Consulting Group, LTD,  Roselle, IL
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In article <6040@cup.portal.com>  thad@cup.portal.com writes:
>
>    ....a rather incomplete defense of Portal management's action of
>    posting JJ name and number, and an overly extensive extollation of
>    "the wonders of Portal" (read: ADVERTISEMENT) deleted......
>
> I'm with a multi-million $$$ a year company, and we CANNOT afford our own
> Usenet "node", and I and thousands of others NEED the communication facilities
> provided to us at a fair price by PORTAL.

Awww...isn't that just *too* bad?  The poor little "multi-million $$$" a
year company just "CANNOT afford" the *extremely expensive* hardware,
software, and telephone bills to set up their own Usenet "node". ;-(
Doesn't your heart just pour out to them? ;-)  I guess that you have to
have a *really big* company like mine (couple hundred K a year) in order
to be able to afford and justify such an *extravagance* as USENET.  They
must really "NEED" that access badly.

> As a satisfied customer of PORTAL, I believe you owe PORTAL Communications
> an apology.

As a satisfied (*you* figure out what I'm satisfied about :-) )
EX-customer of Portal, I believe that Portal owes the whole USENET
community an apology.  In fact, several apologies.  If you can't figure
out what for, it would explain volumes about how you think.

However, from a strictly *personal* standpoint, I'm very happy that they
*did* post that jerk JJ's real name and phone number.
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Ted Manos   tmanos@aocgl.{COM,UUCP,UU.NET}  or ...!{uunet,mcdchg}!aocgl!tmanos