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- From: kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb)
- Subject: Re: Is it live, or is it Memorex?
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- References: <1h8l38INN7f0@agate.berkeley.edu> <1ha2rnINNbd6@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <1992Dec23.164853.27785@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 01:04:15 GMT
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- In <1992Dec23.164853.27785@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) writes:
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- >In article <1ha2rnINNbd6@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> news@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (InterNet News) writes:
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- >But he pays a few dollars a month to UUNET for a one direction only news
- >feed. Not that UUNET would ever release connection times with
- >anatolia.mn.org (Hi, Ahmet!) but I'd bet it's POST-ONLY. So, for a few
- >dollars a week out of pocket cost to him he gets 2 1/2 million readers.
- >Pretty bloody economical, wouldn'nt you say?
-
- >Mutlu's actual cost to the net is not much; compare his volume to one
- >post in comp.binaries and he's minor league. But the precedent he
- >sets, namely, that USENET is too slow or too unwilling to respond to
- >even MAJOR abusers is extremely scary.
-
- I suggest that those of you who have problems with Ahmet/Argic/Mutlu
- send email to THEIR feed (uunet) to see if they plan on doing anything
- about this problem.
-
- --
- Ken Bibb "he heard the snow falling faintly through the
- kbibb@qualcomm.com universe and faintly falling, like the descent of
- jester@crash.cts.com their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
- --"The Dead", James Joyce
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