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From: ncx@cheviot.uucp (Lindsay F. Marshall)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group,net.flame
Subject: Re: Fear and Loathing on the Clouds
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Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 05:06:49 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 30 05:06:49 1985
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In article <1826@hao.UUCP> woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes:
>
>  Because the "backbone cabal" PAYS for most of it. The user's organizations
>do not.
>

Uh uh, as I have pointed out several times before this isnt true everywhere.
In the UK we share the cost between all the sites - perhaps its time something
like that happened "over there". Remember USA != world (for the zillionth time)

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