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From: cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: WARNING
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Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 13:58:53 EST
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Hmmm, a bit strongly worded I would say. Has it ever occured to you
that the net "died" a long time ago when it became evident that 
no one wanted to pay to here someones opinion on how homophobic
Ronald Reagan is? Ever try to explain to your manager why you just
spent $1000 of the companies money this month to collect and relay 10
megabytes of opinion and (to the company) worthless information? It 
isn't easy, try it sometime. A lot of the so called "backbone" sites
have unfortunately had that same problem, when the volume of traffic 
brought the phone bills to the attention of upper management just such
a question was asked. And ALL of them said essentially, "There is no
plausable reason for our company to pay for this 'service', we do 
however wish to keep our employees happy, so if you can do it cheaply
ok, if not then pull the plug." Period. End of discussion, no debate. 
So I say to you, work with the STARGATE people to make it work the
way you want it to work or convince your management that your system
should be allowed to make 1-3 hour phone calls to the other side of
the country, better yet, set up your L.sys file so that you poll all
of the "backbone" sites. They never mind if you pay for the call.
Then you can explain to your manager why the phone bill is $3000. Your
choice, help STARGATE, or pay full price for the "unmoderated" news.
No one has restricted your freedom, simply tied it a little more closely
to your pocketbook.

--Chuck
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