Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!netsys!vector!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Commercial Newsfeeds (Was: something else)
Message-ID: <6327@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 88 16:04:14 GMT
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <201@dcs.UUCP> wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) writes:
>And as far as Richard Sexton's "tasteful" statement quoted above is concerned:

What is this ? Mr. thin skinned man ?

It was a joke son, based on the priciple that the entire net
can decide not to carry a group, but uunet will because
it can make money off it. I see this as a good thing, but then
I also dont think prostitution should be legalised. Also this
was originally posted to talk.bizarre and alt.flamel I wouldnt
have posted it to a news.* group without toning it down or
explaining a bit more fully.

>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.

Given what UUNET charges, and how many site they feed and their costs to
do what they do, by some (admittedly) wild asses guessing, there is a
fair amount of money involved here. Now, I'm not casting dispersions
on anyones honesty, but since nobody I know has seen a balance sheet
the impression remains.

We have a chain of stores here in Ca. that is ``non-profit''. 


-- 
                  ``Beam THAT between your pointy ears''
richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                               {backbone}!gryphon!richard