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From: dave@inset.UUCP (Dave Lukes)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group,net.flame
Subject: Re: Fear and Loathing on the Clouds
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 06:37:30 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 1 06:37:30 1985
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In article <1826@hao.UUCP> woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes:
>> If the backbone cabal can make
>> worldwide decisions to boink traffic, I see no reason why an official
>> user's organization cannot make a decision to generate some.
>
> Because the "backbone cabal" PAYS for most of it. The user's organizations
>do not.
<>
Are you trying to tell me that every month (quarter, year, ...)
the backbone admins all pull out their wallets/chequebooks
and pay all the phone & net bills for their sites from their salaries??
WOW!! What WONDERFUL people they must be, and with the amount of mail/news
going through the backbones, they must all be totally destitute by now.
<>
One little detail that all the backbone admins carefully omit to mention
is that it's not THEM PERSONALLY paying, but their EMPLOYERS who pay the bills:
were THEY consulted before the removal of net.internat?
I would have thought that commercial realities made internationalisation
more important than .
Also, as has been previously stated, in the UK, we try to SHARE the cost around,
thus (hopefully) preventing backbones from being too autocratic.
Yours impecuniously,
Dave Lukes.
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