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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
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Subject: Re: Fear and Loathing on the Clouds
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Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 18:27:34 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 25 18:27:34 1985
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References: <614@h-sc1.UUCP> <446@brl-sem.ARPA>
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Summary: Wrongo, buckaroo

In article <446@brl-sem.ARPA> ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie ) writes:
>and other groups.  If we do not fulfill our committment to not censor
>the news, we risk losing it all.  Hence we pass all the news along without
>regard to content.

At this point in USENET's evolution, if we \DO/ fulfill that 'committment'
we are \guaranteed/ to lose it all.  Get your head out of the sand -- we
have sites out there with phone bills of over $100,000 a month (an extremely
unusual and generous case, I'll admit).  Over 2 years ago I dropped all news
feeds except those I could contact on Cornet (AT&T internal corporate
telephone network) due to management pressure.  And we [were]
"THE PHONE COMPANY"!  After that, I started getting hassles for tying up
the Cornet lines after 5pm when noone (at this location, anyway) is even
here!  My immediate supervisor stepped in and told them that it was a
valuable part of our group's education and public source procurement.

We've got to do something, and we're lucky to have the Spaf spearheading
a lot of it.  I don't agree with everything that he says/does (rmgroup
of net.internat, for instance), but he is getting things moving in the
right direction.  I'd post all the letters that went around between us
backbone admins and Spaf, but that article would be VERY large indeed --
the removal of net.bizarre in particular was NOT spur-of-the-moment
and was NOT a Spaf-only phenomena.
-- 

The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3313 (Cornet 291)
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