Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site decuac.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!cbosgd!decuac!avolio From: avolio@decuac.UUCP (Frederick M. Avolio) Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group Subject: Re: Fear and Loathing on the Clouds Message-ID: <672@decuac.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 08:26:16 EST Article-I.D.: decuac.672 Posted: Sat Nov 2 08:26:16 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 08:58:05 EST References: <614@h-sc1.UUCP> <1817@hao.UUCP> <326@pedsgd.UUCP> <1826@hao.UUCP> <773@inset.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: ULTRIX Applications Center, MD Lines: 21 Xref: watmath net.news:4234 net.news.group:4208 Summary: Naive In article <773@inset.UUCP>, dave@inset.UUCP (Dave Lukes) writes: > Are you trying to tell me that every month (quarter, year, ...) > the backbone admins all pull out their wallets/chequebooks > and pay all the phone & net bills for their sites from their salaries?? > > One little detail that all the backbone admins carefully omit to mention > is that it's not THEM PERSONALLY paying, but their EMPLOYERS who pay the bills: > were THEY consulted before the removal of net.internat? I suspect that a lot of folks are 1) new to the thought of the large phone bills backbone sites have and 2) how those bills are paid. [*** By the way, Gene just posted the backbone map to mod.maps. Please read it to see what a backbone site is.] It is quite naive to think that the people who really are in charge of paying the phone bills read USENET. In fact, I imagine that many "employers", as you say, would cut the funds almost at once -- or demand that news be cut off -- if they actually saw some of what they are paying for. So, let us not be silly. Many folks are terrified by the thought of their employers reading some of the garbage for which they are paying. Fred