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From: dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Dermot Tynan)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: More on the Serious Dilemma.
Summary: uunet
Message-ID: <2416@sultra.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 88 00:30:25 GMT
References: <6849@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Distribution: world,!to.portal
Organization: Ultrasystems DSI, Sunnyvale, CA
Lines: 35

In article <6849@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>, jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) writes:
> 
> [...] Portal
> Communications has annual receipts in excess of $1,800,000 and expenses
> consisting most likely of salaries and phone lines.  The principles
> are getting rich on the backs of the net and no one seems to care.
> 

I care.  See my article in news.admin (no, I won't X-post).  Is this figure
for real???  Any comments?  I know that USENET could be *vastly* improved
with only 10% of that!!!  How much of that $1.8M is coming from USENET
pockets?

> Unless steps are taken to curtail this wanton abuse of the good will
> of the net, I will take whatever steps needed to raise the required
> capital to create a Portal Communications Company clone which I will
> then use to compete directly, head to head, with .portal.com for
> their revenue and subscriber base.  The profits which are being
>
> John F. Haugh II (jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US)                   HASA, "S" Division

I would suggest that perhaps UUNET has the facilities in place (and hopefully
the courtesy to ensure the goodwill of the net is maintained) to do just that.
Again, referring to what I posted in news.admin, I wouldn't suggest that such
a service "drop" any offenders, just limit their distribution.  I presume that
UUNET will send me some hate-mail for suggesting this, but if they are worried
about generating revenue, this could certainly provide an answer.  Who knows,
maybe they could even give themselves a small salary???  I think they (uunet)
deserve it.   As usual, I welcome comments...
						- Der

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