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- Path: spacenns.space.honeywell.com!usenet
- From: bjheyboer@space.honeywell.com (Brian Heyboer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: SSBootFile - ssboot~1.lha (09/26):FIX yer reader mr PAYING for IT
- Date: 15 Feb 1996 17:29:08 GMT
- Organization: Honeywell Space Systems
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <4fvqh4$m6i@spacenns.space.honeywell.com>
- References: <19960211.574770.1008E@al051.du.pipex.com> <4fpi06$5vm@ccnet2.ccnet.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: bjheyboer.space.honeywell.com
-
- In article <4fpi06$5vm@ccnet2.ccnet.com> slider@ccnet.com writes:
-
- >Care to explain that one when all of you connect to
- >the NET through some sort of ISP which provides a news and mail server
- >you can use a header reader on.
-
- I think you are making a lot of assumptions about how participants collect
- their mail. You are also making the incorrect assumption that all participants
- have no-charge local phone access to an ISP. Some may have to call long
- distance and still others are in countries where local calls are metered. Many
- of our foreign participants have to go to great lengths to participate, often
- at fair expense.
-
- Scanning headers while online can get expensive if you are paying for the phone
- call, probably moreso in the long run than the occasional improper binary
- posting or spam. Those who do pay may well have their news grabbed at a time
- that the rates are low -- a time that it is going to be inconvenient to scan
- headers.
-
- Yes, the offender apologized for his misdeed. But the thread goes on because
- too many have attempted to blame the victims, opening up the possibility that
- others will believe this to be the case and will post further binaries.
-
- The facts are:
-
- 1. This is not a binaries group.
- 2. Anyone posting binaries in this group is 100% wrong, be it intentional or
- accidental, unless it is due to a faulty server.
- 3. Anyone defending the postings of binaries in this group is equally wrong.
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