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- From: bwatson@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce watson)
- Subject: Re: A simple Question.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.203713.20007@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 20:37:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug11.182802.19175@udel.edu> bower@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Tyson Bower) writes:
- >This program posts news to many machines throughout the continent.
- >Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this? [ny]
- >
- >It also warns me that I am costing the net hundreds if not thousands
- >of dollars.
- >
- >I've been losing sleep over this for days. Who pays these "hundreds
- >if not thousands" of dollars? Who receives the funds? What do they
- >do with them? What, precisely, is the nature of the fees incurred
- >by such a post? Am I going to get a bill in the mail? Will I have
- >to change my name, get a face job, and move to a different country
- >to prevent the net.cops from hunting me down mercilessly like the
- >dog I am?
-
- Everyone chips in a little--a few pennies go a long way. Are you
- kidding? The Phone Company gets the money and who knows what they
- do with it? No bill, no need to change name, face job may be a
- good idea anyway, no need to move to a different country. A dog?
- Maybe that face change really is a good idea!
-
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- ___________________________________________________________________________
- |wats@nyx.cs.du.edu | "To the extent that it doesn't use mathematics; |
- | Bruce Watson | it is no science." |
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