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Article #3176Re: who pays for USENET
From: Dave Hayes
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 09:28
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 09:28
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cathyf@is.rice.edu (Catherine Anne Foulston) writes:
>doesn't mean the cost isn't there. I'm not going to be able to look
>at my paycheck and say "hey, this would have been $1 more if we didn't
>have Usenet" (the way I can with utilities) because it's lost in the
>noise -- but it's still there.
If it is "lost in the noise", then why quantify the cost of an abberant
poster and use that quantification to justify various forms of reproach?
Isn't that like picking nits?
--
Dave Hayes - Network & Communications Engineering - JPL / NASA - Pasadena CA
dave@elxr.jpl.nasa.gov dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov ...usc!elroy!dxh
People who think they know all are often insufferable.
Rather like those who imagine that they know nothing.
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Newsgroups: news.admin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!dave From: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes) Subject: Re: who pays for USENET Message-ID: <1992Sep27.092816.21637@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Reply-To: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov Organization: Jet Propulsion Lab - Pasadena, CA References: <1992Sep24.180412.8565@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> <Bv5JFF.LC0@rice.edu> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 09:28:16 GMT Lines: 17