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From: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: The death of USENET
Message-ID: <10456@mcdchg.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jun 88 16:08:26 GMT
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Reply-To: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
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Dave Mack (mack@inco.UUCP) writes:
> True, there's no administration, no enforcement mechanism, but there is a
> culture, of sorts. Currently, the ethic is that if you get a feed, and
> you can afford to, you provide feeds for free. I'm suggesting that we
> should change this. If the sites you feed won't take a part in the survival
> of the net, cut them out of it.

I was involved in something along these lines.  In my previous job, I ran a
site on the backbone map.  Shortly after I left the company, the management
decided to stop forwarding news to non-company machines.  Fortunately, those
of us who were getting news from this backbone machine had almost 48 hours
to find alternative feeds.  What happened was that I "stole" all but one of
this ex-backbone site's backbone news feeds, since they were no longer willing
to provide feeds.  BTW, I offered them a feed, if they polled me for it.  :-)
-- 
Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP	Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix
"Failure is one of the basic Freedoms!" The Doctor (in Robots of Death)