From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!trb
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: people who need mail paths - (nf)
Article-I.D.: floyd.1335
Posted: Wed Mar 23 07:22:49 1983
Received: Thu Mar 24 07:44:41 1983
References: nbires.113

Wake up friends.  Some guy just said that some sites carry the bulk of
netnews traffic.  He mentioned decvax and ucbvax.  Maybe DEC has a
couple of USENET machines, maybe UCB has a dozen.  Uhm, excuse me.
There's this company called Bell Telephone Laboratories which has
HUNDREDS of machines on the net, and BTL forwards more mail and news
than even (!) decvax.  By far.  I don't want to hear some college kid
saying "why shouldn't they, it's all telco revenue anyway?"  Telco
revenue doesn't get credited to our BTL organizations, but our
telephone bills get taken out of BTL budgets.

Maybe I'm a little crabby this early in the morning, but I just can't
understand how senseless some people can be.

	Andy Tannenbaum   Bell Labs  Whippany, NJ   (201) 386-6491