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Bandwidth Idiots

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From: Gavriel State
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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Subject: Bandwidth Idiots
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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 13:59:07 GMT
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