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From: cld@altger.UUCP (Claus L. Duerr)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,news.config
Subject: Re: French and UK sites wanted for EUcon.
Message-ID: <1322@altger.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 89 11:00:43 GMT
References: <96@i2ack.UUCP> <303@dcs.UUCP> <55538@pyramid.pyramid.com> <1989Jan20.165603.5440@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: cld@altger.UUCP (Claus L. Duerr)
Organization: Digital Concepts
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In article <1989Jan20.165603.5440@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
}In article <303@dcs.UUCP> wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) writes:
}>... this is a most blatant violation of the USENET spirit
}>I have come across.
}
}The "Usenet spirit" fades fast when *you* have to pay, or justify paying,
}substantial long-distance bills.  Believe me, I know:  there was a time
}when all the long-distance bills for Toronto's Usenet links landed on my
}desk.  The fact is, these things cost money, and people who are perceived
}as freeloaders -- whether this perception is accurate or not -- can expect
}little sympathy from those who have to finance the "Usenet spirit".

hello!

perfectly right! but there is a *big* difference between taking money
to pay bills (caused by the net-service) and making money by demanding
more money than the net-traffic costs.

so long
claus


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