From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!trb
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: people who need mail paths
Article-I.D.: floyd.1293
Posted: Sat Mar 12 19:15:52 1983
Received: Sun Mar 13 11:15:54 1983
References: tekmdp.1834

I've had enough of people who need a mail path from x to y because "The
accursed Harpo machine seems to be mute in that direction."  (Quote from
Eric J. Wilner, sdccsu3!ee163cz.)  One little VAX can only handle so much
traffic.  Brian Redman was not hired by Bell Labs to be everybody's
personal uucp adminstrator.

Here's a novel idea.  You need a uucp path from your machine to some
other machine?  Call the administrator of the other machine and set one
up.  You can't pay the bills?  Then you gotta beg some philathropic
intermediary to forward your mail.  You'd better say please.

You're bitching about harpo?  What the hell does harpo owe you?  What
does this network owe harpo or decvax?  I just can't believe that
people have the nerve to grub money out of other people's pockets and
then complain when they come up short.

I'm not saying that there's something wrong with an impoverished little
school (ucsd?) getting a little monetary help from industry, I just don't
want to hear any complaints about it.

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