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From: jmsellens@watmath.UUCP (John M Sellens)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: impending newsgroup cuts
Message-ID: <17070@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 23:34:24 EST
Article-I.D.: watmath.17070
Posted: Thu Oct 31 23:34:24 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 04:39:23 EST
References: <472@spice.cs.cmu.edu> <6090@utzoo.UUCP> <1753@peora.UUCP>
Reply-To: jmsellens@watmath.UUCP (John M Sellens)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <1753@peora.UUCP> jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) writes:
>I hope that if Mr. Spencer's selfish desire to cancel net.sources.mac ...

Nothing selfish about it.  Mr. Spencer's at one of Ontario's financially
strapped universities and he (and the powers that be) find it hard to
justify paying so much in long distance charges for so much repetitive
and sometimes useless junk.

Now if you would like to prove yourself un-selfish, you should offer to
pay for his long distance costs.  Very few people on the net (myself
included) pay for the privilege, or do anything to help maintain the
net.  I look at it as a simple case of "put up or shut up".  If you want
to see net.sources.mac, you pay for it, because *someone* has to.

John