🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: ott.online
Article #112

Re: NCF? FreeNet or FeeNet

#112
From: Matthew Darwin
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 00:00
22 lines
1688 bytes
Jay Lawrence <ae782@freenet.carleton.ca> wrote:

> 	Note the key word "asked".  Those who cannot, or don't wish to
> donate are not denied access.  Try that at a commercial ISP.

The 'renewal letter' makes it seem like a 'donation' is required.

> 	NCF pays a lot of money for bandwidth, it just happens to come
> from Carleton.  Who told you it was free?

They pay based on the percentage they use.


BTW, could you follow up to BOTH can.infohighway and ott.online?  Your
newsreader should do this automatically unless you're using some broken
system written in th '80s.

-- 
Matthew Darwin                            Westend Family Cinema
Community Volunteer                       The home of great family movies!
matthew@davin.ottawa.on.ca                webmaster@familycinema.org
http://www.davin.ottawa.on.ca/~matthew/   http://www.familycinema.org
Technical Details
Message-ID: <7r0kir$s1u$1@caribou.davin.ottawa.on.ca>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail
References: <37d2b505.1993608@news.newforce.ca> <7qul88$j7i@freenet-news.carleton.ca>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 105a5a,6510667b4e13df38
X-Google-Attributes: gid105a5a,public
X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,6510667b4e13df38
X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public
From: Matthew Darwin <matthew@davin.ottawa.on.ca>
Subject: Re: NCF? FreeNet or FeeNet
Date: 1999/09/06
Message-ID: <7r0kir$s1u$1@caribou.davin.ottawa.on.ca>
X-Deja-AN: 521694853
References: <37d2b505.1993608@news.newforce.ca> <7qul88$j7i@freenet-news.carleton.ca>
X-Complaints-To: news@davin.ottawa.on.ca
X-Trace: caribou.davin.ottawa.on.ca 936629659 28734 206.47.27.88 (6 Sep 1999 14:54:19 GMT)
Organization: Davin Technical Services
User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-19990413 ("Endemoniada") (UNIX) (Linux/2.2.12 (i686))
NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Sep 1999 14:54:19 GMT
Newsgroups: ott.online,can.infohighway