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Article #473Re: abuse of the net
From: Andy Finkel
Date: Thu, 08 May 1986 19:43
Date: Thu, 08 May 1986 19:43
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In article <779@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>In article <306@sdcarl.UUCP>, tre@sdcarl.UUCP (Tom Erbe) writes:
>> I logged on to the Atari Home Base BBS last night and found many useful
>> programs. However, I do not wish to pay for the phone time. Would any
>> one at Atari be willing to make these programs available by E-mail???
>> thomas r. erbe
>> {ucbvax,ihnp4,akgua,hplabs,sdcsvax}!sdcarl!tre
>
>Sure, let's let {ucbvax,ihnp4,akgua,hplabs,sdcsvax} pay so this guy can
>play with his Atari. After all, he can't afford it, but they
>can. In fact, why not just post the entire contents of the BBS to
>the net -- then *everybody* can pay for the phone time.
>
>John Gilmore {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa
Please! He didn't say he couldn't afford it; He said he didn't WISH
to pay for the phone time.
Somehow, that makes it worse.
--
andy finkel
Commodore(Amiga)
{ihnp4|seismo|allegra}!cbmvax!andy
or pyramid!amiga!andy
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!caip!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16,net.mail Subject: Re: abuse of the net Message-ID: <218@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-May-86 15:43:40 EDT Article-I.D.: cbmvax.218 Posted: Thu May 8 15:43:40 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 14-May-86 04:43:12 EDT References: <306@sdcarl.UUCP> <779@hoptoad.uucp> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 31