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From: faustus@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Death to binaries (was re: pictures in binaries)
Keywords: Like wow, man.
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Date: 22 Jun 88 02:43:40 GMT
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I don't know about these "Big Nasty Corporations".  Their employees
enjoy reading non-technical groups, right?  I'll bet lots of them also
enjoy having nice offices, company memberships at health clubs, etc,
and many companies provide these things.  Why is netnews any different?
Would you work for Evil Slave-driver Software, Inc, where they chain
you to your terminal and you can't even play hangman while your
compiles run?  Be real.

Are there any estimates of how much it actually costs an average
netnews site to carry all the groups, with maybe a few medium-distance
down-stream links?  Factor in the disk costs, CPU time for rn...  Maybe
a few 100 $'s a day?  For how many employees?  Is it enough for a big
site to care?  I doubt it.

	Wayne