Xref: utzoo news.admin:2448 news.sysadmin:730 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!necntc!gordon!blblbl!henrik From: henrik@blblbl.UUCP (Larry DeLuca) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Actually *defending* Portal's abuse of the net??? Summary: irresponsibility ... Message-ID: <553@blblbl.UUCP> Date: 6 Jun 88 00:03:35 GMT References: <6040@cup.portal.com> <23.UUL1.3#935@aocgl.UUCP> <534@blblbl.UUCP> <700@vsi.UUCP> Organization: Camp Random, Lexington MA Lines: 16 In article <700@vsi.UUCP>, friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes: I don't think so either. Please keep in mind that for many sites, the "visible" costs of Usenet are the smallest portion of I enjoy Usenet as much as the next guy, but taking an hour or two *every day* is expensive when every staff person does it. We charge for our time, and "billable hour" is a key term here: customers don't pay for me to read news. We tried to say "no news during work time" but it just didn't work. We Well, I guess the question is one of responsibility. I read my netnews at home (blblbl and its two modems sit in my bedroom). Even if I didn't, I also work for a living and don't consider paging through rec.humor for two hours to be the best use of my time. larry...