Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:45:16 -0600 From: Blaine Minazzi <bminazzi@denverweb.net> To: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News... Message-ID: <3357A50E.3BE60349@denverweb.net> References: <199704181657.JAA02594@root.com>
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David Greenman wrote: > do. If you chose to chop out 90% of the Usenet content with full knowledge > that you will lose customers and make less money, than that's just being a > morality Czar and has nothing to do with the economics. > > -DG > > David Greenman > Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project What does morality have to do with not pissing away bandwidth? So... leave the porn in, and risk a lawsuit. take it out and risk a lawsuit. Screw it, go with the low bandwidth solution. If the porn REALLY is 90% of usenet content, then we certainly need to fix it. I don't buy the fact that our incomes would suffer greatly by simple having the customer fetch the stuff from smut_r_us.com rather than us having to store hundreds of megs of this shit on our servers, just so someone can get their rocks off. If I want to make money in that arena, I would open a strip club or adult bookstore. It is still available, we just dont shuffle a gazzillion megs of the shit around daily. Since most of it is the same "back issues" and same old files, it's REALLY a bandwidth pisser. Economics is simple. You make the choices YOU think are most benificial to the company. You live with the results. Blainehome | help
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