Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!killer!dcs!wnp
From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Commercial Newsfeeds (Was: something else)
Message-ID: <201@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 88 06:59:50 GMT
References: <5700@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <6253@gryphon.CTS.COM> <3358@c3pe.UUCP>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas
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In article <3358@c3pe.UUCP> aliza@c3pe.UUCP (Aliza R. Panitz (AlmostLady)) writes:
>In article <6253@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>>Portal and uunet. The whores of the NET.
>
>Take a look at the monthly statistics.  Three of the highest volume systems
>are "pay uucp" arrangements - portal.cup.com, dasys (a.k.a. Electric Cat)
>and killer.

Killer is NOT a "pay uucp" system -- when you first sign up for access, you
are firmly told that "Donations are not solicited, and will not be accepted".

Killer users (and nodes fed by killer) therefore are not customers, and the
sysop retains the right to police their behavior. That he does not do so by
the same restrictive standards which others might like for him to use is another
matter.

And as far as Richard Sexton's "tasteful" statement quoted above is concerned:

To compare uunet to Portal is ludicrous. Uunet is charging enough to make ends
meet, if that -- it is a service provided by the USENIX association. It is
certainly not a profit-making venture like Portal.

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