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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: 417K waste of money postings (was: Re: PICNIX V3)
Message-ID: <641@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 88 15:44:48 GMT
References: <1559@slvblc.UUCP> <111@pigs.UUCP>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Organization: The College On The Other Side of Route 1
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In article <111@pigs.UUCP> haugj@pigs.UUCP (John F. Haugh II) writes:
...been posted to usenet recently.  i in fact run it on the compaqs here
...at work.  why should my upstream feed be expected to transmit that
...thing to me if they aren't using it, considering i can pick it up
...from my local archive site?



Not to defend these folks, but I'm not aware that I have a "local
archive site" if indeed one exists.  Apparently, the closest one to me
is in Ohio.  Thus it's much less expensive to get the stuff from my feed
than to call Ohio.

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