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From: Patrick Taylor
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:04
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:04
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In article <1992Sep27.092816.21637@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes) writes:
>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?
It's more like turning up the noise ;-)
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From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (Patrick Taylor)
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Subject: Re: who pays for USENET
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Date: 28 Sep 92 16:04:53 GMT
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