Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site trwrdc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!trwrdc!frith 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. Lines: 20 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."