From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Apr 20 12:17:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA07218 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 12:17:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA07207; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 12:17:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.4) id PAA20332; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 15:17:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 15:17:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199704201917.PAA20332@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: gpalmer@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News... Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.isp References: <5jdpms$dar$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 CURRENT #1 Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In lists.freebsd.isp you write: >Eddie Fry wrote in message ID ><3357FEE5.4DBB@eaznet.com>: >> I am in TOTAL agreement. I don't think anyone's going to lose customers >> because they don't keep this junk on a local drive. If anything, change >> your focus from "WE GIVE YOU EVERYTHING A SMUT-LOVER WOULD WANT" to "WE >> GIVE YOU FASTER ACCESS AND DOWNLOAD SPEEDS" because we don't jam our >> lines with smut. >Sorry, you lose. I know from experience :-( Customers have left >webspan (the ISP I currently work for) because I had troubles with >hard drive reliability in the early days and they went elsewhere to >get their porn. And they were porn suckers, believe me. ALL the people >who phoned to complain about the server being down, when cornered by >tech. support, admitted that they were after a.b.p.e, even one who >started out saying ``When is the news server gonna be back, my >business depends on it!''. He never posted a thing, he just read. Hell, a very large percentage of ISP customers are using it for pornography. Sex sells, always has, always will. The news statistics SHOW it, what, in the top 100 read newsgroups 90% are alt.binaries.* related. If you dont carry those groups, you lose/dont get customers, period. -Crh -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich