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- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!bill
- From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
- Subject: Re: FAS 2.10 async driver, part 5/5
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.163442.17382@unixland.natick.ma.us>
- Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix (508) 655-3848
- References: <1992Aug18.180159.9122@telesys.tnet.com> <103.2423@incc.com> <RAYMOND.92Aug20100322@cobra.es.ele.tue.nl> <1992Aug20.174112.1394@netdev.comsys.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 16:34:42 GMT
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- alex@netdev.comsys.com (Alex Huppenthal) writes:
- > 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 ?
-
- Why is it a "problem" that people have to offset the expenses invovled with
- transmitting news to other sites? I can see why you'd complain about
- exhorbitant rates, but a nominal fee to help offset expenses isn't a bad
- thing. In any case, this isn't the right place to discuss this, let's take
- it to email if anyone wants to carry it further.
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