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- From: alex@netdev.comsys.com (Alex Huppenthal)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: FAS 2.10 async driver, part 5/5
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.174112.1394@netdev.comsys.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 17:41:12 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.180159.9122@telesys.tnet.com> <103.2423@incc.com> <RAYMOND.92Aug20100322@cobra.es.ele.tue.nl>
- Organization: Communication Systems Research Corporation
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- The real problem is that Jerry has to pay for news feeds. Why is this the
- case? Thousands of sites here in the US don't pay for news feeds. Is it
- long distance news feeds ? Aren't there large sites which distribute to
- smaller sites, fee-free ? Has capitalizzzm gone crazzzy ? Information for the
- wealthy, and keep the poor in the dark ?
-
- I'm agast that the costs are so high that cross-posts of sources hurt people
- like Jerry.
-
- What can I do to reduce the costs of information delivery to people in Jerry's
- position, that obviously must pay for something many of us take for granted.
-
- Jerry, can you get your feed compressed ? How about 14.4K modems, do they
- solve the problem ? What about a central news site there that distributes
- the cost among many leaf sites ? Are the state controls so rigid that no one
- can do this ?
-
- The problem isn't Jerry or the other posters, it is the cost of *receiving*
- news. The FCC specifically states that reception of broadcasts cannot be
- restricted - right ? ( here ), any chance for broadcast *news* there ? It is
- unfortunate. More freedom...!
-
- Any other ideas ?
-
- -Alex
-
-
- In article <RAYMOND.92Aug20100322@cobra.es.ele.tue.nl> raymond@es.ele.tue.nl (Raymond Nijssen) writes:
- >In article <103.2423@incc.com> jerry@incc.com (Jerry Rocteur) writes:
- >
- >> In article <1992Aug18.180159.9122@telesys.tnet.com>, kreed@telesys.tnet.com (Kevin W. Reed) writes:
- >>> davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
- >>>
- >>> >In article <102.26574@incc.com>, jerry@incc.com (Jerry Rocteur) writes:
- >>> >| Who is the irresponsible bastard who posts large files in a non source
- >>> >| newsgroup.
- >
- >> First of all let me apologize for posting my complaint to alt.sources,
- >> I was so upset at the time that I did not realize that I cross posted :-(
- >
- >Now you see how easily humans can do things which upset other humans.
- >
- >> [...] some of you who were abusive
- >> and offensive really shine the light on what I can only describe as pimply
- >Now who do you think you are? You just can't stop, can you? Even so, I would
- >I didn't expect you to apologize for calling Uwe a 'bastard', but I thought
- >Do you never make mistakes?
- >> I just ingnored your waffle.
- >Your mistakes however (insulting, crossposting) are much worse.
- >The difference is that you, Jerry Rocteur, never, nowhere, no way, nohow
-
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- --
-
- Alex Huppenthal CSR Corp.
- alex@netdev.comsys.com Dallas, Texas 75252
- texsun!netdev!alex
-