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Article #51Re: Anyone running a for-pay Unix bulletin-board system?
From: Paul Maclauchlan
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 23:15
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 23:15
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In article <jstewart.702312725@cunews>, jstewart@alfred.carleton.ca (John Stewart) writes:
> In <1992Apr3.143146.8838@utstat.uucp> tg@utstat.uucp (Tom Glinos) writes:
>
> >In article <jstewart.702306398@cunews> jstewart@alfred.carleton.ca (John Stewart) writes:
> >>
> >>Have you heard of the Freenet concept? Examples would include the Cleveland
> A Freenet would therefore be funded by the local government, perhaps with
> additional contributions from other local organizations that make use of
> the Freenet to distribute information.
Just a point you should be reminded of, John. Government (local or otherwise)
does not fund or support anything. They solely distribute and allocate the
taxpayers' money.
I'd prefer they didn't spend mine subsidizing "the net".
--
.../Paul Maclauchlan
Moore Corporation Limited, Toronto, Ontario (416) 364-2600
paul@moore.com -or- {...!uunet.ca,...!telly}!moore!paul
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and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul."/BS'84
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Newsgroups: ont.uucp Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!hybrid!robohack!telly!moore!paul From: paul@moore.com (Paul Maclauchlan) Subject: Re: Anyone running a for-pay Unix bulletin-board system? Message-ID: <1992Apr9.231549.21906@moore.com> Summary: "government sponsors" Organization: Moore Corporation Limited, Toronto ON, Canada References: <davecb.702222621@yorku.ca> <jstewart.702306398@cunews> <jstewart.702312725@cunews> Distribution: ont Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 23:15:49 GMT