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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>
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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...