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Re: a.b.p.e. distribution (was, Re: Does USENET condone CHILD

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From: Mario Brandan
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 03:32
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In article <BxL4J5.147@servalan.servalan.com> rmtodd@servalan.servalan.com (Richard Todd) writes:
>system administrator *does* have a Quadra 700 on his desk; in addition to 
>being his desktop machine, it's the news server, and he puts up with the
>(decidedly non-trivial) load providing Usenet service to the whole campus 
>puts on his machine.  

Nobody forced him to do that right?  Fine, what is your point?

>
>Look, *you* think Usenet is important.  *I* think Usenet is important, so
>much so that I bought my own machine for it, with my own money (which is
>probably more than *you*'ve ever done).  But the people who sign purchase
>orders at Universities *don't* think this.  Wake up and smell the coffee.
>
Buddy, what you do with your money is your business, if you have
problems with what people want, take your server else where!

>You think disk drives are cheap.  Fine.  *You* send us one.  We prefer
>the 1.2GB Fujitsu SCSI drives.  Write me and I'll tell you the address to
>put on the package.  Put up or shut up.

That's the kind of drive you probably have!  Maybe if you looked around
you'd find cheap ones so you can store more info.  You know, I just
think you have an attitude problem  I really didn't like your language
either, if you want to write to this newsgroup, you should straighten
out your foul language.  It takes up disk space buddy!
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Message-ID: <1992Nov20.033210.29489@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!gmuvax2!mbrandan
References: <1992Nov9.145214.19489@ms.uky.edu> <1992Nov10.115942.27626@newstand.syr.edu> <BxL4J5.147@servalan.servalan.com>

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From: mbrandan@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Mario Brandan)
Subject: Re: a.b.p.e. distribution (was, Re: Does USENET condone CHILD
Message-ID: <1992Nov20.033210.29489@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
References: <1992Nov9.145214.19489@ms.uky.edu> <1992Nov10.115942.27626@newstand.syr.edu> <BxL4J5.147@servalan.servalan.com>
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