Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!gatech!udel!princeton!mccc!pjh 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 Lines: 17 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. Pete Holsberg UUCP: {rutgers!}princeton!mccc!pjh Technology Division CompuServe: 70240,334 Mercer College GEnie: PJHOLSBERG Trenton, NJ 08690 Voice: 1-609-586-4800