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- From: mbrandan@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Mario Brandan)
- Subject: Re: a.b.p.e. distribution (was, Re: Does USENET condone CHILD
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.033210.29489@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
- Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
- References: <1992Nov9.145214.19489@ms.uky.edu> <1992Nov10.115942.27626@newstand.syr.edu> <BxL4J5.147@servalan.servalan.com>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 03:32:10 GMT
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- In article <BxL4J5.147@servalan.servalan.com> rmtodd@servalan.servalan.com (Richard Todd) writes:
- >system administrator *does* have a Quadra 700 on his desk; in addition to
- >being his desktop machine, it's the news server, and he puts up with the
- >(decidedly non-trivial) load providing Usenet service to the whole campus
- >puts on his machine.
-
- Nobody forced him to do that right? Fine, what is your point?
-
- >
- >Look, *you* think Usenet is important. *I* think Usenet is important, so
- >much so that I bought my own machine for it, with my own money (which is
- >probably more than *you*'ve ever done). But the people who sign purchase
- >orders at Universities *don't* think this. Wake up and smell the coffee.
- >
- Buddy, what you do with your money is your business, if you have
- problems with what people want, take your server else where!
-
- >You think disk drives are cheap. Fine. *You* send us one. We prefer
- >the 1.2GB Fujitsu SCSI drives. Write me and I'll tell you the address to
- >put on the package. Put up or shut up.
-
- That's the kind of drive you probably have! Maybe if you looked around
- you'd find cheap ones so you can store more info. You know, I just
- think you have an attitude problem I really didn't like your language
- either, if you want to write to this newsgroup, you should straighten
- out your foul language. It takes up disk space buddy!
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