erik@naggum.se (Erik Naggum) (11/10/88)
Paying for a lot of news trafficking through our system here, I can't fail to think of the cost of news transmission resulting from Morris' worm and the ensuing discussions. A few $$ for each netnews site sure adds up to quite an amount. I suppose this is a cost that will hurt non-Internet sites more than Internet sites. So Robert Morris,jr has cost _me_ an unnecessary increase in my phone bill. Thanks! --Erik Naggum +----+ +----+ Email: erik@naggum.se --or-- erik@naggum.uio.no === | === / Snail: Naggum Software; POB 1560 VIKA; OSLO 0118; NORWAY === | === / Phone: +47-2-384800 (office) -549163 (home) -352977 (fax) +----+ +----+ "These are my opinions, and not those of my employees."
me@pcsbst.UUCP (Michael Elbel) (11/11/88)
In article <4711@naggum.se> erik@naggum.se writes: > >A few $$ for each netnews site sure adds up to quite an amount. >I suppose this is a cost that will hurt non-Internet sites more >than Internet sites. So Robert Morris,jr has cost _me_ an >unnecessary increase in my phone bill. Thanks! > Oh, come on! You also cost _my company_ an unnecessary increase in their phone bill by posting this message, I cost _you_ an increase, every article you read and don't like may be an unnecessary increase, ... But: This is the cost of information. It does not depend on who causes it. If you want to be informed then you have to pay for it. You also could say that Mr. Morris has costed the newspaper readers money because there were many articles about his worm in most magazines. Your statement is _very_ narrow eyed. I for myself don't think it was wasted money to follow the discussion about the worm and Mr. Morris, because I could get more information on the security of the net and the way how people think about it than i had gotten in years elswhile. So if you don't want to have information you propably don't want, simply unsuscribe to news, but don't blame Mr. Morris for you being not interested in the subject. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Elbel UUCP: ...!uunet!unido!pcsbst!me ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Opinions might be my own, but how shall I know what I think until I read what I write? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------