🚀 go-pugleaf

jet@casc.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) writes:
> No, that is USENET.  I carry the groups I want.  If you get your feed
> from me and want groups that I don't carry, tough.  Go find them
> somewhere else.  I have no obligation whatsoever to carry groups other
> than those *I* want the machine I own or administrate to carry.

I am in 100% absolute total agreement with you.  Nobody gets a free
ride on my long-distance phone bill.

I carry the whole news.*, gnu.*, and selected comp hierarchies and am
usually willing to add another "technical" group or two to a
downstream feed, which means that I have to now get it from my
long-distance upstream feed.  The "soc" hierarchy is straight out.
Never carried any "soc" group, probably never will.  Don't like my
policy?  Tough.  Find another feed or start paying my phone bill.

It's simple business.  I don't HAVE to offer you a service.  If you
don't like my service you don't HAVE to keep getting it.  You are
always free to shop around.

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