Re: who pays for USENET

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From: Dave Hayes
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:28

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cathyf@is.rice.edu (Catherine Anne Foulston) writes:

>This is not to say that I'm sure that reproaching people for stupid
>cross posts helps.  I am sure I'll be putting in a kill file entry
>for a certain news.admin cross-poster whose posts I don't care to
>read in news.admin.

This is exactly my point. It costs <some cost> to reproach people, and if
there is no benefit derived (as you have seen), then why bother? Most
USENET flames over this end up wasting more bandwidth flaming the 
crossposter than the crossposter wasted. (e.g. the "Fuck You All" 
crosspost that is STILL reverberating)

-- 
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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From: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes)
Subject: Re: who pays for USENET
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