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From: alb@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: The poster should pay for news
Message-ID: <2063@alice.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-Jul-83 11:17:05 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 24 11:17:05 1983
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	One sure effect would be that people would shut up.

That's for sure!  That's exactly what would happen:  EVERYONE would
shut up and the net would die.  How many people do you actually think
can pay for the uucp bill, cpu charges, and disk space for even one
article for EVERY site on the net (and do it on a regular basis?)?
It's obvious that the present scheme is not entirely fair, but a
scheme in which the posters pays all the costs is not practical.