Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!ncar!noao!nud!mcdchg!heiby 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 References: <2645@rpp386.UUCP> <56228@sun.uucp> <2350@inco.UUCP> <56250@sun.uucp> <2355@inco.UUCP> Reply-To: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby) Organization: Motorola Microcomputer, Schaumburg, IL Lines: 17 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)