Re: Anybody Home?

On Sep 27, 7:00 pm, "Richard Crowley" <rcrow...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Their administration likely told them that if they wanted to offer
Usenet service to all comers, they had to at least make it self-
supporting. I've got no problem with what they're doing.

I have no problem with it either. I have a problem with what's
supposed to be included in the $20/month I pay for Internet access
through Verizon not working. Since I'm not paying (directly) for
rec.audio.pro now, and since there's no chance of getting Verizon's
news feed fixed except at their own lazy pace (there's not even anyone
you can talk to about it, and you can't e-mail them about Internet
problems), I'm content to use Google. It gets me the same thing for
free as I'd have to pay for somewhere else.

I don't get upset over spam. I recognize it and simply skip over it.
If I read a lot of newsgroups, or newsgroups that were heavily
spammed, I might feel different about it. I certainly don't endorse
spammers and I wish they'd all get a real job, but I'm not going to
spend my money to not show me something that I can easily ignore.

By the way, Virginia, my state, had an anti-spam law on the books, but
it was recently declared unconstitutional. So it's legal to spam
Virginians again.
.

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