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From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.archives
Subject: Re: From the moderator
Message-ID: <44436@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: 3 Nov 88 22:54:57 GMT
References: <132@twwells.uucp>
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Approved: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)

> : Consider first contacting the archive maintainer.  Archives are generally
> : a free public service (not so for UUCP-UUNET, where it's what people
> : pay for) and public lambastings will make folks very gun-shy about being
> : nice any more...

Note that the uunet archive ARE free.  We charge for access to the machine,
not the archives. If you think its a petty distinction, the Internet folks
can (and do) ftp all they want at no charge. It is analogous to paying
a distribution fee for a tape that has "free" software on it.

> : I do comp.sources.unix and (maybe) c.s.misc archive-maintenance, but
> : David Comay, dsc@uunet.uu.net, handles the rest.

This will come as a great surprise to David...

--rick