🚀 go-pugleaf

wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle) wrote:

> There is no plan; SWITCH cut off all the groups quite some time ago.
> One moment the groups were there, and the next minute they were gone.

correct! SWITCH does not plan to but HAS already banned these newsgroups.

> SWITCH owns and runs SWITCH machines.  They can carry what they want.
> If the owner of your machine wants to get the banned groups, he can
> either go through SWITCH (convince them to feed your machine) or buy a
> feed from chuug.  Such feeds are not expensive.

sorry, but you're definitely WRONG. you people always forget that
SWITCH is funded as a foundation by the swiss universities and therefore
financed (!!!) by the federation, the cantons and the universities.
SWITCH is really NO PRIVATE ORGANIZATION. i hope this is finally clear.

now this means:
SWITCH has to carry what their sponsors tell them to carry and NOT what
SWITCH thinks is good for its "customers". the whole mess is the result
of SWITCH's perverted organization!

later...
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