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- From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
- Newsgroups: houston.general
- Subject: Re: News Feed
- Message-ID: <OT6L1EG@taronga.com>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 15:34:37 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.170002.18453@sun44.synercom.hounix.org> <FE3L431@taronga.com> <1992Nov14.181247.8589@limbic.ssdl.com>
- Distribution: houston
- Organization: Taronga Park BBS
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- In article <1992Nov14.181247.8589@limbic.ssdl.com> gil@limbic.ssdl.com (Gil Kloepfer Jr.) writes:
- >In article <FE3L431@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- >>After all, you've sunk a couple of grand into your hobby already... [...]
-
- >The problem is that USENET is *NOT* my hobby.
-
- Fine, then become a leaf site and only get the groups you want. Or stay
- where you are and only get the groups you want, and if anyone wants you
- to feed them something else get 'em to cut some sort of a deal.
-
- The bottom line... YOU DON'T HAVE TO CARRY EVERYTHING. If you don't, then
- the volume problem vanishes. So, what's your beef?
-
- >I also don't
- >think that one would be able to get everyone to agree to what newsgroups
- >they were willing to carry to help "distribute" the load.
-
- Some sites might have to pay for groups that they're currently getting
- for free. So? They'll either decide they don't want to do it, or they'll
- become the feed for that group.
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