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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: 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
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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...