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From: mnarayan@hcr.UUCP (Michael Narayan)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Setting up a UUCP site in Ontario
Keywords: charging?
Message-ID: <5381@hcr.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 89 15:17:27 GMT
References: <89Mar14.020238est.19867@me.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: mnarayan@hcrvx1.UUCP (Michael Narayan)
Distribution: ont
Organization: HCR Corporation, Toronto
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In article <89Mar14.020238est.19867@me.utoronto.ca> eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick) writes:
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>...
>
>I only want to bring in enough
>money to cover the long-distance bills to Toronto, the initial
>investment of the system, the upkeep, and my time spent maintaining
>it. A minor profit could be involved.
> ...

Isn't the idea behind Usenet to provide a FREE service ? Don't existing
sites provide a free service, with the site owners/operators paying
for the system and administration with their own money ? I don't think
that you should be charging users for Usenet access. However, if there
was some standard system cost ...

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>I'm also aware that many "commercial" sites have come under fire for 
>allowing idiots/goofs, what have you, to post to the net. I hope to
>keep this under control, somehow, but hopefully it won't be needed.
> ...
>

I don't think that you should be censoring what your users post.
If they are paying for connect time to your system, then they are
bearing the cost of what they write.

>-- 
>Doug Eastick	eastick@me.UTORONTO.BITNET	UUCP: ...!utai!me!eastick
>		eastick@me.toronto.edu

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Michael J. Narayan
HCR Corp.
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Nobody else could have opinions like these.
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