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From: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Death to binaries (was re: pictures in binaries)
Keywords: Like wow, man.
Message-ID: <605@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 17 Jun 88 21:26:46 GMT
References: <4476@gryphon.CTS.COM> <2132@sugar.UUCP>
Organization: Ohio State Math-Stats Dept
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In article <2132@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> [deleted stuff]
>  USENET is whatever the people paying the bills
> say it is. Most of the bills are being paid by Big Nasty Corporations

I wonder what the proportion of academic nodes is in USENET. If all usenet
is carried by commercial operations what you say is right. Perhaps we need
a parallel set up: One that will continue even if all the commercial users
pull out. After all Universities need to keep the faculties and the slaves
(aka grad students) happy. Some research labs too will have to stay in
for the same reasons