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In article <18DEC199216352895@rover.uchicago.edu>, frank@rover.uchicago.edu
(Frank - Hardware Hacker - Borger) writes:
>	Your answer provides a beautiful example. You want the NEWS version
>	because you have access. If we do that we gore the users without a news
>	feed. 

If you provide it via news, you've not taken anything away from anyone else that
the had before. This sounds like a case of "misery loves company". "If I can't
have it, you can't either". News is the most accessible alternative, but as I
said before, why stop at one alternative? Look at it this way, by your standards
you are goring all the users _with_ a news feed.

>(Personally I feel most for the little guys, who can't read news
>	and FTP to 47 godzillion other places to get the latest software.)

UUCP is free. If you are fortunate enough to be near a usenet site that will let
you connect, news is available for the cost of a modem. MANY sites are in fact
fortunate in this manner (including mine). News basically costs me a modem and
disk space. No connect charges, unlike DECUServe. And since everything is
delivered here at modem speed, the line is up much less time than if I had to
read it on-line, so if I did have to pay LD, news would be a big win. And news
is often available via a local call, whereas DECUServe is available to very few
people as a local call.

If you really feel for us little guys, dump notes and shift everything to news.
BTW, I'm talking about DECUServe rather than DCS here, because (a) all the same
arguments apply, and (b) DCS isn't available at any cost to lots of the "little
guys".
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