unido making commercial use of the net

Jeff Michaud michaud at decvax.dec.com
Fri Jun 30 07:01:44 AEST 1989


In article <1552bis at stl.stc.co.uk>, dww at stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) writes:
> Right on, close down all those disgusting commercial sites that charge for
> news access.  Starting with uunet - that would REALLY show unido where they
> stand, that's where they get their feed from (via mcvax).   Over commercial
> lines too - mcvax even have a high speed leased line to uunet to keep the
> costs down.

	Since when is "uunet" a commercial site?  Its non-profit last I heard.

	BTW, what is all this talk.* type grabage doing in the alt.sources newsgroup anyways?
	(and people wonder why the real source newgroups are moderatered!)
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