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Article #1687Bandwidth Idiots
From: Gavriel State
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 13:59
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 13:59
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Well, the end of the school term is upon me, and I will soon return home to Ottawa where I don't have access to a direct internet link. As I have mentioned in passing before, in Ottawa we have a co-operative UUCP network (domain name is ocunix.on.ca) set up for basic mail and news access. Due to the desire to keep costs at a minimum, we don't allow the use of mail-FTP gateways (last I checked we automatically bounce such things), nor do we get any of the binary groups. Being one of the relatively few people in Ottawa subscribing to c.s.n.m, and given the hugely inappropriate binary postings recently, it seems as though I will not likely be able to continue to read the group. Since I have recently sold my NeXT, this is no longer of much concern to me, but realize that this also means that no-one else in our UUCP co-op will be able to read c.s.n.* either. That said, I wish to give a heart salute to Mr. Sean Eric Fagan for his stand. His methods may not be appropriate, but his point must be well taken. At the same time I wish to refer Mr. Mark Crispin to the 'Keywords:' field of this message. I trust that him being such an expert on news software will mean that he will have little difficulty finding it. -- Gavriel State | 2A Systems Design Engineering/Economics | University of Waterloo grstate@crocus.uwaterloo.ca (School) | "What in God's name is going on?" grstate@vader.ocunix.on.ca (> Apr 17) | "FOUL! No rhetoric! Two-one!" (519)746-2215 (Waterloo) | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!cs.utexas.edu!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!crocus.waterloo.edu!grstate From: grstate@crocus.waterloo.edu (Gavriel State) Subject: Bandwidth Idiots Message-ID: <1992Apr16.135907.9299@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Keywords: arrogant stupid jerk Sender: news@watdragon.waterloo.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Waterloo Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 13:59:07 GMT Lines: 31