Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 (Fortune 01.1b1); site graffiti.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!graffiti!peter From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group Subject: Re: the recent rmgroups have started me thinking ... Message-ID: <392@graffiti.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 03:40:03 EST Article-I.D.: graffiti.392 Posted: Sun Nov 3 03:40:03 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Nov-85 03:13:52 EST References: <179@mit-eddie.UUCP> <1823@hao.UUCP> <255@mit-eddie.UUCP> <1835@hao.UUCP> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 16 Xref: watmath net.news:4249 net.news.group:4237 > > What makes you think the backbone sites will be told what they should > > pay for? For one, they are free not to carry the groups they don't want > > to, tough luck on the rest of the net. > > Isn't this, in practice, just about equivalent to the "backbone cabal" > running things, which has been objected to so strongly? I don't like that > idea either, even if I *am* on a backbone site. I'd much rather see us ...add some more non-backbone cross-links. That way non-backbone groups can stay alive, albeit with more delays. The net really needs more connectivity, anyway. -- Name: Peter da Silva Graphic: `-_-' UUCP: ...!shell!{graffiti,baylor}!peter IAEF: ...!kitty!baylor!peter