Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!mtunx!whuts!homxb!antique!cjp
From: cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Death to binaries (was re: pictures in binaries)
Summary: Vox Usenettica
Message-ID: <2312@antique.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 88 23:25:26 GMT
References: <4398@gryphon.CTS.COM> <5560@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <2121@sugar.UUCP> <2287@antique.UUCP> <2144@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: vax135!cjp (Charles Poirier)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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In article <2144@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP writes:
>> >Again. Usenet is not a BBS. Usenet is a resource for programmers. Let's
>> >not lose sight of that.
>
>> That may be the justification used at Peter's host for those Usenet
>> phone bills, but I expect that there are many other parts of Usenet
>> that have a broader view.

[stuff about can't afford to pay phone bills]

Just wait till you hear the wolf-howl that goes up when every Usenetter
receives an announcement that their favorite non-technical newsgroup is
scheduled for termination.  Most companies feel they can't afford
unhappy employees -- this is what I mean by a "broader view".  I bet
there would be a lot of companies, both big-and-nasty and small-but-nice,
that would find themselves retracting that announcement toot sweet.
I'm not too worried.  Watch out for those small-but-nasty ones though.

-- 
	Charles Poirier   (decvax,ucbvax,mcnc,attmail)!vax135!cjp

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