Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry 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 Article-I.D.: utzoo.6091 Posted: Tue Oct 29 11:44:49 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Oct-85 11:44:49 EST References: <6047@utzoo.UUCP> <6081@utzoo.UUCP> <5356@amdcad.UUCP>, <269@yetti.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 35 > 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. > _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ From a land where Lord Spencer pays the bills -- if you want net.flame, you can finance it yourself! _____________________________________________________________________________ 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