Xref: utzoo news.admin:2418 news.sysadmin:720 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!ncar!gatech!bbn!clsib21!blblbl!henrik From: henrik@blblbl.UUCP (Larry DeLuca) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Actually *defending* Portal's abuse of the net??? Summary: enlightened copmanies Message-ID: <534@blblbl.UUCP> Date: 2 Jun 88 01:52:27 GMT References: <6040@cup.portal.com> <23.UUL1.3#935@aocgl.UUCP> Organization: Camp Random, Lexington MA Lines: 20 In article <23.UUL1.3#935@aocgl.UUCP>, tmanos@aocgl.UUCP (Theodore W. Manos) writes: # In article <6040@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com writes: # > # > I'm with a multi-million $$$ a year company, and we CANNOT afford our own # > Usenet "node", and I and thousands of others NEED the communication facilities # > provided to us at a fair price by PORTAL. # # Awww...isn't that just *too* bad? The poor little "multi-million $$$" a # year company just "CANNOT afford" the *extremely expensive* hardware, I don't think you're being quite fair here. A number of companies won't let themselves be convinced of the benefits of having a USENET connection. At previous jobs I have taken the issue up several levels of management only to have it rejected because of phone costs, potential usage of disk space, requisitioning a modem, or even because someone chose to mention that there were non-computer related groups. At the last place I worked they were so security-paranoid that they wouldn't let us hook up to the USENET despite the fact it posed no risk to them. larry...