Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cheviot.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!cheviot!ncx From: ncx@cheviot.uucp (Lindsay F. Marshall) Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group,net.flame Subject: Re: Fear and Loathing on the Clouds Message-ID: <486@cheviot.uucp> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 05:06:49 EST Article-I.D.: cheviot.486 Posted: Wed Oct 30 05:06:49 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 07:43:18 EST References: <614@h-sc1.UUCP> <1817@hao.UUCP> <326@pedsgd.UUCP> <1826@hao.UUCP> Reply-To: ncx@cheviot.UUCP (Lindsay F. Marshall) Distribution: net Organization: U. of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. Lines: 16 Xref: watmath net.news:4217 net.news.group:4165 net.flame:12592 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) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lindsay F. Marshall, Computing Lab., U of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, UK ARPA : lindsay%cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk@ucl-cs.arpa JANET : lindsay@uk.ac.newcastle.cheviot UUCP :!ukc!cheviot!lindsay -------------------------------------------------------------------------------