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From: frith@trwrdc.UUCP (Lord Frith)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: Fear and Loathing on the Clouds
Message-ID: <1094@trwrdc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 10:55:12 EST
Article-I.D.: trwrdc.1094
Posted: Wed Nov  6 10:55:12 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 15:34:04 EST
Reply-To: frith@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith)
Organization: TRW Advanced Technology Facility, Merrifield VA.
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Summary: Put your money where your mouths are

>> What you are willing or not willing to pay for effects sites down the pike
>> that rely on you for news.  How about being a little more considerate of
>> the needs of people in general?  Your site may pay the bills, but that
>> doesn't mean you can ignore the needs of everyone else.
> 
> Hold it right there.  SDC volunteered their site as a backbone because we
> thought USENET was a good thing.  We have given our time, money and equipment
> to help keep it moving.  However this free use of our time, money and
> equipment extends only as far as it does not become a big burden.  For us
> USENET is becoming a burden and it's headed toward becoming a big burden. The
> liabilities are outweighing the assets.
> 
>   And by the way, we *can* completely ignore the needs of everyone else. After
> all it's our money and we can spend it where we want.  We aren't obligated to
> being a backbone site.  No backbone site is obligated to be a backbone site.

If you completely ignore the needs of other sites then you won't be a backbone
much longer.  This is hardly a solution.  Sensitivity to other people's needs
is a first step to discovering a solution, not this isolationist "well we
pay the bills so we can do as we damned well please."