From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!mclure Newsgroups: net.news Title: Re: Engineering Usenet - (nf) Article-I.D.: sri-unix.5298 Posted: Wed Mar 9 07:00:09 1983 Received: Fri Mar 11 06:57:32 1983 #R:allegra:-67400:sri-unix:8200007:000:320 sri-unix!mclure Dec 9 03:34:00 1982 The obvious problem with this, of course, is that cross-country phone calls are expensive and transferring kilobytes per day, even at 1200 baud will run up a large phone bill which many people are unwilling to pay, especially if they feel that Usenet is more of a convenience than a necessity (heaven forbid!). Stuart