-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Duncan Frissell 1/3/96 1:02 PM:

You mean that the thirty-some odd open news servers listed on http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~jwa/open-sites.html might get swamped. Then the CIS refugees will be forced to pay Sameer the massive $12.50 (?) a month for a net-access-only account and read off of c2.org's server. (Or any of the thousands of sites worldwide one can open a shell account on.)

CIS refugees aren't the only people who use or need free NNTP servers:

Here's what you can do for $208: get a used XT with two floppy drives for $70; a 2400-baud internal modem (new at a local computer show) for $18 (it comes with free communications software); and an e-mail and Usenet news-reading account for $10 per month.

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