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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.news.config,net.news.group
Subject: Re: impending newsgroup cuts
Message-ID: <6091@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 11:44:49 EST
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> It seems to me that the "nature" of the net is going to depend on what its
> participants want to read and what they find valuable -- which is not going
> to be a fixed quantity but is going to change with time.  At the moment,
> macs and mac software are one popular topic among many; tomorrow, it may
> Amigas, for all I know (:-)).  So what?

The nature of the net is also going to depend on who's paying the bills --
"he who pays the piper calls the tune" -- and the people paying the bills
are mostly Unix systems interested specifically (although not exclusively)
in Unix support.

> .... Luckily that's not the way technology works (at
> least in a reasonably free society)....

As the man who gets the phone bills for a backbone site, I assure you that
there is nothing "free" about Usenet!  :-)

> _____________________________________________________________________________
> 	From a land where Lord Spencer rules -- No Admittance
> 	to Undesirable Newsgroups.
> _____________________________________________________________________________

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	From a land where Lord Spencer pays the bills -- if you
	want net.flame, you can finance it yourself!
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P.S.  I hear tales that some people in net.news.group don't seem to have
realized that There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch, and are criticizing
newsgroup cuts.  I got sick of net.news.group and unsubscribed long ago,
so if you want me to see it you'll have to send me mail.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry