Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!ncar!oddjob!uwvax!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!bungia!com50!n0atp!barry From: barry@n0atp.UUCP (Barry S. Berg) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Your right to swing your fist stops at my nose! Summary: When you are not part of the solution you are the problem! Keywords: Soap Flakes Required Message-ID: <13@n0atp.UUCP> Date: 9 Jun 88 04:59:41 GMT References: <5816@cup.portal.com> <581@picuxa.UUCP> Reply-To: barry@n0atp.UUCP (Barry S. Berg) Followup-To: news.admin Organization: N0ATP, Amateur Radio Packet Gateway, St. Paul, MN Lines: 32 I know this should probably be posted in alt.flame, but I think that it is more appropriate here. If I am wrong, please accept my apologies. This was Re: HELP ME!! In article <581@picuxa.UUCP>, tgr@picuxa.UUCP (Dr. Emilio Lizardo) writes: > > Would the system administrator at cup.portal.com please remove this > stupid fucker's priveleges? I had hoped to put USENET onto packet radio. It is precisely the fact that posters like the above are too common that will not allow this. All the bemoaning that I have heard about precious bandwidth, the costs of the network, a wider distribution all go down the potty with remarks like the above. So what! You say. What do I care if you don't use packet radio. Well bunky, How about world wide telecommunications from designated gateways at no cost?? How about being free from the loss of critical paths because of a change in management policy which shuts down sites. [ That's ok killer was a rare occurance -- right?? :-( ] How about freeing the net from the tyranny of having to cost justify long distance charges. Packet Radio could provide a dependable (uses a modified X.25) protocol transfer of data FREE. Sure, its only 300 to 1200 baud at the lower frequencies, but we can connect all day long so who cares. So go ahead, feel free to use your favorite four letter words, use the NET for your commercial endevours, who cares if the network collapses of its own weight, so that you can have the freedom of speech to offend the world, or get free advertising. -- Barry S. Berg DOMAIN: barry@n0atp.N0ATP.MN.ORG N0ATP Packet Radio Gateway UUCP: {...}amdahl!bungia!n0atp!barry "Speech is civilization itself--it is silence which isolates." --Thomas Mann "Moderation in all things, most especially moderation." --Author as yet unknown.