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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1989 15:25
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1989 15:25
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In article <3281@shlump.dec.com> michaud@decvax.dec.com (Jeff Michaud) writes: >> Right on, close down all those disgusting commercial sites that charge for >> news access. Starting with uunet... > > Since when is "uunet" a commercial site? Its non-profit last I heard. There is nothing contradictory in that; it is a non-profit corporation, like Usenix or ACM. This does not mean it doesn't charge for its services, only that it doesn't pay dividends to investors. -- NASA is to spaceflight as the | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology US government is to freedom. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
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Newsgroups: news.admin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: unido making commercial use of the net Message-ID: <1989Jun30.152540.23220@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1552bis@stl.stc.co.uk> <786@redsox.bsw.com> <114@utower.UUCP> <5523@pixar.UUCP> <3281@shlump.dec.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 15:25:40 GMT