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From: greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Fear and Loathing on the Clouds
Message-ID: <799@adobe.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 02:29:34 EST
Article-I.D.: adobe.799
Posted: Sun Nov  3 02:29:34 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 4-Nov-85 02:27:00 EST
References: <6101@utzoo.UUCP>
Reply-To: greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid)
Organization: Adobe Systems, Palo Alto
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Keywords: phone bills
Summary: phone bills phone bills phone bills

In article <6101@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>for the privilege of paying exorbitant phone bills for your benefit.

>Who's talking about the will of the community here?  The will of the
>community will not pay my phone bills.

>that money than paying phone bills with it.  (Incidentally, don't you

>to go towards the backbone's phone bills.  If you aren't going to help with

>at the cost of still higher phone bills!) and "coordinate calls more

>Or else it demands still deeper pockets on our parts.  I agree that slowing

>I spend a lot of money on it.  What a terrible thought.  How many mink tea
>
>				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
>				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry

[etc., etc., etc.]

Here is the root of the problem, folks: "phone bills".  You see it in every
single message that is in support of cutting newsgroups.  It is conspicuously
absent in every other message.

IS THAT ALL THERE IS TO IT?  MONEY?  I guess money does make the world
go 'round.  I suspect all the backbone sites write it off on their income
taxes, else I can't imagine their footing many-thousand dollar phone bills
more than once.

Let's get this out in the open.  How do we lower the phone bills at ihnp4,
allegra, gatech, decvax, utzoo, etc.?  Cut newsgroups?  Change their
connectivity so they don't make so many long distance calls?  Offer to pay
35 cents for every 512 bytes that we send through their sites?

This is so American of all of us.

Glenn Reid
 {decwrl,glacier,sun}!adobe!greid
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