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? 	I need to get the manual via mail.  Is there any mail archive
? 	servers that you know of, or could you mail me a copy...?

? No, we don't support a mail archive server because that would unfairly
? burden each mail link between a requester and our systems with the
? cost of passing along the archives.  However, if you'd like to pay for
? the connection yourself, we maintain an anonymous UUCP redistribution
? service that includes the GNU Emacs Lisp Manual, along with all the
? other GNU software.  I'll send along the GNU.how-to-get instructions
? under separate cover to you.  Also, you may want to ask around Europe
? because several sites there have already got a lot of the GNU stuff,
? from us or from other sources.					--Bob

Sounds like BS to me. Why should he have to pay when you can mail it
*FOR FREE*. That's right, the internet is *already* paid for, much
like unlimited phone service, you might as well use up all you can.
And other people's mail links are there to be used. While I agree that 
Europe might be a bit far off the beaten path, I have no such qualms
about routing this stuff thru uunet and whoever else might be on
the way. Mail me a copy and a path and *I* will take the karma hit
for burdening those suckers' mailers. There's one born every minute,
you know, and it is morally wrong to allow them to keep their money.

As for UUCP, we don't believe in it, and route all ours thru uunet.

	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell	(301) 975-5688
	<rbj@nav.icst.nbs.gov> or <rbj@icst-cmr.arpa>
	Careful with that VAX Eugene!
SHHHH!!  I hear SIX TATTOOED TRUCK-DRIVERS tossing ENGINE BLOCKS
 into empty OIL DRUMS..