[Fwd: usenet censorship]
Subject: usenet censorship From: Hootman <lewis@cyberstreet.com> Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 10:16:54 -0500 Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Organization: LiveNet, Inc. Reply-To: lewis@cyberstreet.com Does anyone know of a server that allows uncensored news groups, mine censors all alt. groups.
On Tue, 24 Dec 96 15:16:27 EST, Dimitri Vulis (dlv@bwalk.dm.com) wrote:
Does anyone know of a server that allows uncensored news groups, mine censors all alt. groups.
Check out alt.net.
From http://www.alt.net :
Altopia Corporation "We do news." Altopia Corporation provides Usenet news and email services to individuals and organizations. At this time we are not taking any more customers until we have had a chance to refine our offerings. Please check back at this site periodically for details of future offerings. If you have any questions, please send email to info@alt.net. Last Modified: 961213 ----------------------- What exactly does F-K mailing list contributor and alt.net admin Chris Caputo mean by "refine our offerings"? jd -- Fight spam: http://www.vix.com/spam jason durbin slothrop@poisson.com Stop Reading Here <---
We mean that we are coming up with a new pricing scheme that will allow us to more accurately match revenue with expenses. Chris Caputo President, Altopia Corporation On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, J Durbin wrote:
What exactly does F-K mailing list contributor and alt.net admin Chris Caputo mean by "refine our offerings"?
Chris Caputo wrote:
We mean that we are coming up with a new pricing scheme that will allow > us to more accurately match revenue with expenses.
Chris, In non-pressrelease language does this mean: a. Making a profit. b. Trying to at least break even. c. Trying not to lose your ass. d. Hiring a dyslexic pot-head as Chief Financial Officer was a big mistake. Just Wondering, Toto
Sorry about the press-release'ish language - twas not my intention. I would say (b), with happy customers and (a) being the goal. The service we provide incurs significant expenses, mainly because of the bandwidth involved, and we just need to make sure the cost of these expenses is being recovered in a fair way, before we grow any more. Chris Caputo President, Altopia Corporation On Wed, 25 Dec 1996, Carl Johnson wrote:
Chris Caputo wrote:
We mean that we are coming up with a new pricing scheme that will allow us to more accurately match revenue with expenses.
Chris, In non-pressrelease language does this mean: a. Making a profit. b. Trying to at least break even. c. Trying not to lose your ass. d. Hiring a dyslexic pot-head as Chief Financial Officer was a big mistake.
Just Wondering, Toto
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