Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bfmny0!tneff
From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Cayman on the net
Message-ID: <14338@bfmny0.UUCP>
Date: 21 May 89 22:58:19 GMT
References: <2877@cayman.COM> <7345@hoptoad.uucp> <2895@cayman.COM> <7382@hoptoad.uucp> <3348@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
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In the case of product tech support via netmail, we should defer to 
the anarchy of the net rather than try to impose rules. If I am a leaf 
site who happens to use XYZroff and I mail one question to the vendor 
every couple of months, my feed sites would have to be insane tyrants 
to care. If on the other hand I am XYZroff Corp. and am receiving and 
answering twenty requests per day, then *my* mail feed site had better 
be feeling generous -- or be compensated for its trouble. And so on up 
to the "backbone" at which point the traffic scatters. 

Unless Rick objects, a simple solution would be to "request" that any 
commercial operation wanting to use the net for tech support subscribe 
to UUNET directly. That way you're paying the most oppressed part for 
his services, and dealing straight from the "backbone" net-wide.
-- 
Tom Neff				UUCP:     ...!uunet!bfmny0!tneff
    "Truisms aren't everything."	Internet: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET