Re: Help out the firefighters

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From: Mark Hartman
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 01:34

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In article <sleaterCusCGp.5o9@netcom.com>,
Jon Yeater <sleater@netcom.com> wrote:
>Eugene N. Miya (eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov) wrote:
>: In article <32td0k$7pl@apple.com> emmayche@apple.com (Mark Hartman) writes:
>: >As miniscule as telnet bandwidth is, it's still a drain on the total bandwidth
>: >available to the fire area.  Please, everyone - STAY OFF systems in the SLO
>: >area via telnet, gopher, WWW, ftp or whatever, and let the firemen and other
>: >emergency workers have the bandwidth for really important things.
>
>Who says putting out a forrest fire is a "really important thing"?  The 
>forrests need occasional fire to be healthy.  The only species that fire 
>really inconveniences is humans.  This is simply because we have an 
>irrational tendency to become over attached to worthless material 
>things.  Its about time we started to hold the good of the environment 
>above the greed of a few homeowners.  

Gee, I guess netcom will give an account to ANYONE nowadays...

>--Sleater--
>_______________________________________________________________________________
>Sleater                                                      sleater@netcom.com


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Subject: Re: Help out the firefighters
Date: 24 Aug 1994 18:34:36 -0700
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