HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: tomrice@netcom.com (Tom R. Rice)
Subject: what else?
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 05:18:26 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: ba.test

don't bother...

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tomrice@netcom.com              Holler Observatory 
CIS:71160,1122                  Longitude: 121 d  30 m  20 s W 
WB6BYH                          Latitude:   37 d  25 m  10 s N 
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tomrice@netcom.com              Holler Observatory 
CIS:71160,1122                  Longitude: 121 d  30 m  20 s W 
WB6BYH                          Latitude:   37 d  25 m  10 s N
From: cantrell@clipper.ingr.com (Loren Cantrell)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: test
Date: 28 Jul 92 17:20:06 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Intergraph Advanced Processor Division - Palo Alto, CA

aabc
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Loren Cantrell                           cantrell@clipper.ingr.com
Newsgroups: ba.test
From: soo@sidc.com
Subject: test...
Organization: Seiko Instrument Dev. Corp.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 23:52:47 GMT

seventh test...

JHS
From: edc@ENG.Vitalink.COM (Eric D. Christensen)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: test
Date: 15 Jul 92 19:43:17 GMT
Reply-To: edc@eng.vitalink.com
Organization: Vitalink Communications, Fremont, CA


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+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|   Eric D. Christensen - System Administrator - Vitalink Communications    |
|         Email: edc@ENG.Vitalink.COM           Phone: (510)440-2209        |
|             SCCA San Francisco Region - Formula 440 #8                    |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|      The worst day racing is better than the best day working....         |
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Newsgroups: ba.test
From: renee@rigel.actel.com (renee gardner)
Subject: testing
Organization: Actel Corporation
Distribution: ba
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 23:52:26 GMT

kjdf;kljdsfk;jlsafklsaj
Newsgroups: ba.test
From: news@cypress.com
Subject: ba.test
Organization: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:31:39 GMT

In article <abc> doobie@grok.com writes:
Nothing

Newsgroups: ba.test
From: paulmc@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Paul McClelland)
Subject: test.test
Followup-To: dev.null
Summary: testomatic
Keywords: test of course
Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix
Distribution: ba
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 06:34:30 GMT

tsetest



Newsgroups: ba.test,su.test
From: theory@leland.Stanford.EDU (Elizabeth Aragorn)
Subject: Testing
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: ba
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 06:10:52 GMT


a test
From: bsherman@s27w007 (Bradley K. Sherman)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: It's a test okay
Date: 30 Jul 92 18:24:18 GMT
Followup-To: ba.test
Distribution: ba
Organization: Institute of Forest Genetics DataBase


This is only a test.
Newsgroups: ba.test
From: beldar@MicroUnity.Com (Gardner Cohen)
Subject: another useless test
Reply-To: beldar@MicroUnity.com
Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc.
Distribution: ba
Date: 26 Jul 92 16:18:36

Did this get out?
Newsgroups: ba.test
From: soo@sidc.com
Subject: test...
Organization: Seiko Instrument Dev. Corp.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:36:24 GMT

this is test 1...

JHS
Newsgroups: ba.test
From: jfd@octel.com (John F. Detke)
Subject: What else, a test
Organization: Octel Communications Corporation
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:59:54 GMT

Hello,

This is of course a test. I hestitate to ask this, but if someone sees this, 
could you mail me a response? Oh, and please everyone coordinate this so I 
only get a few responses :)

Thanks,
jfd
-- 
John F. Detke			|"Because it comes from a large, trusted vendor"
jfd@octel.com			|	Anon. Tech, when asked why I should
Octel Communications Corp	|	trust his 10,000 line shell script,
M/S 5-4, 890 Tasman Dr.		|	and run it as root.
From: mikem@rgbsys (Mike Mages)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: test
Summary: test
Keywords: test
Date: 29 Jul 92 19:14:51 GMT
Organization: RGB Spectrum

Testing
From: woolf@alc.com (Bobby Woolf)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: test #1
Date: 28 Jul 92 23:36:24 GMT
Reply-To: woolf@alc.com
Organization: Ascent Logic Corporation, Inc.

ba.test
07/28/92 16:30

----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Bobby Woolf                             Ascent Logic Corp.
    woolf@alc.com                           San Jose, CA
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: ba.test
From: sysadmin@olympus.arc.nasa.gov..arc.nasa.gov (Pete Ekanem)
Subject: testing
Organization: Nasa-Ames Research Center
Distribution: ba
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 12:56:09 GMT

testing testing testing
===================================================================

Test signature file - still under construction!!
Newsgroups: ba.test
From: tomrice@netcom.com (Tom R. Rice)
Subject: Re: what else?
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 05:49:48 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: ba.test

after chmod a+r


-- 
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tomrice@netcom.com              Holler Observatory 
CIS:71160,1122                  Longitude: 121 d  30 m  20 s W 
WB6BYH                          Latitude:   37 d  25 m  10 s N 
-- 
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tomrice@netcom.com              Holler Observatory 
CIS:71160,1122                  Longitude: 121 d  30 m  20 s W 
WB6BYH                          Latitude:   37 d  25 m  10 s N
From: hdg@netcom.com (H David Goering)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: Test
Date: 31 Jul 92 15:48:43 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

testing
Newsgroups: ba.test
From: root@genome.lbl.gov (Operator)
Subject: testing
Followup-To: ba.test
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Distribution: ba
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 21:00:39 GMT

testing.
From: brister@vix.com (James Brister)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: test #4
Date: 23 Jul 1992 13:00:24 -0700
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab
Distribution: ba
NNTP-Posting-Host: gw.home.vix.com

Yo! 
Thu Jul 23 13:00:07 PDT 1992
From: brister@vix.com (James Brister)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: test #4
Date: 29 Jul 1992 18:34:47 -0700
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab
Distribution: ba
NNTP-Posting-Host: gw.home.vix.com


Wed Jul 29 18:34:43 PDT 1992
From: root@infoserv.com
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: test
Date: 25 Jul 92 20:00:00 GMT

test
Newsgroups: ba.test
From: tomrice@netcom.com (Tom R. Rice)
Subject: fighting a .sig problem.
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 04:58:24 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: ba.test

does this solve the duplicate .sig problem?


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tomrice@netcom.com              Holler Observatory 
CIS:71160,1122                  Longitude: 121 d  30 m  20 s W 
WB6BYH                          Latitude:   37 d  25 m  10 s N
From: brister@vix.com (James Brister)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: Test #2
Date: 22 Jul 1992 20:05:38 -0700
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab
Distribution: ba
NNTP-Posting-Host: gw.home.vix.com

Yo!
Wed Jul 22 20:05:32 PDT 1992
Newsgroups: ba.test
From: news@cypress.com
Subject: ba.test
Organization: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:32:56 GMT

In article <abc> doobie@grok.com writes:
Nothing
From: des@des.unet.com (Dave Swanson)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: test "From" address
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:46:24 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: N.E.T. Access Products Division, Santa Barbara

test1 - des@des.net.com
From: rick@rgbsys (Rick Davis)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: spacefor is a horrid hack
Summary: spacefor is a pile of dung
Keywords: hack
Date: 28 Jul 92 23:22:45 GMT
Organization: RGB Spectrum


Spacefor must be hacked to match the size of 
you outbound spool.  IIICK!  I can think of several
ways to do this dynamically.  I can also think
of several ways to documemt this correctly!!!


-- 
                                              <uunet,usenix>!rgbsys!rick
                    R  G  B  Spectrum         rick@rgb.com
               950 Marina Village Parkway
                   Alameda, California 
Newsgroups: ba.test
From: tomrice@netcom.com (Tom R. Rice)
Subject: another one
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 05:38:46 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: ba.test

let's see
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tomrice@netcom.com              Holler Observatory 
CIS:71160,1122                  Longitude: 121 d  30 m  20 s W 
WB6BYH                          Latitude:   37 d  25 m  10 s N 
-- 
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tomrice@netcom.com              Holler Observatory 
CIS:71160,1122                  Longitude: 121 d  30 m  20 s W 
WB6BYH                          Latitude:   37 d  25 m  10 s N 
Newsgroups: ba.test
From: johnw@group1.uucp (John Wheeler)
Subject: testing
Organization: Group One, Ltd.; San Francisco
Distribution: ba
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:15:09 GMT

Hi there, just testing

-- 
_________ John Wheeler  |Informix-4GL / SQL * Unix * Broadcast Audio Production
 \BEAR!/  Group One Ltd.|            Emmy award winner (audio)
   \./    San Francisco | co-founder; Digital Tool & Die Computer Animation; SF
Newsgroups: ba.test
From: fenton@esd.esd.wj.com (Jim Fenton)
Subject: Test (again)
Organization: Watkins-Johnson Company
Distribution: ba
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:39:20 GMT

Just testing (again)
--
Jim Fenton      fenton@wj.com
Watkins-Johnson Company, San Jose, CA   408 435-1400
From: bsherman@s27w007 (Bradley K. Sherman)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: Testing
Date: 30 Jul 92 20:56:16 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Institute of Forest Genetics DataBase


Once more into the breach with a new Pnews.header 7/30/92 1:57 PM
From: cantrell@clipper.ingr.com (Loren Cantrell)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: test
Date: 28 Jul 92 17:16:40 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Intergraph Advanced Processor Division - Palo Alto, CA

test

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Loren Cantrell                                       cantrell@clipper.ingr.com
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From: root@infoserv.com (Postmaster)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: test
Date: 26 Jul 92 18:11:36 GMT
Organization: InfoServ Connections

test
From: jkyser@netcom.com (Jeff Kyser)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: tyest
Summary: test
Keywords: test
Date: 25 Jul 92 00:14:02 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

babababababababa
-- 
Jeff Kyser      jkyser@netcom.com      {amdahl,apple,claris}!netcom!jkyser
From: jeuck@unix.sri.com (Philip Jeuck)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: test
Summary: test
Keywords: test
Date: 22 Jul 92 15:38:32 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: SRI International

test 1

Phil Jeuck
jeuck@unix.sri.com
From: nazir@sw.stratus.com (Meer Nazir)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: TEST
Keywords: TEST
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:53:52 GMT
Reply-To: above
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc.

JUST CHECKING POSTING BY XRN
From: fatcat@infoserv.com (Gintaras R. Gircys)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: testing
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:40:55 GMT
Organization: InfoServ Connections
X-Mailer: TMail version 0.81

testing
From: screen@coreys.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: testing again
Date: 28 Jul 92 19:00:23
Organization: /usr/goodman/screen/.organization
Distribution: ba
NNTP-Posting-Host: coreys.berkeley.edu

another test...
From: screen@coreys.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: testing
Date: 29 Jul 92 01:55:50 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: /usr/goodman/screen/.organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: coreys.berkeley.edu


	Testing posting capability...
From: shawn.mccullar@gate.micromed.com (Shawn Mccullar) 
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: This is a test message
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:52:00 GMT
Reply-To: shawn.mccullar@gate.micromed.com (Shawn Mccullar) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Micro-Medic Network Gateway - +1 408 280-1610 - Public access BBS

This is a test message...

.[ Shawn McCullar ].[ San Jose, CA ].[ New Dimensions - 408-274-5550 ].
.[ Over 11,000 .GIFs; 600+ .MODs; IBM PD/SW ]..[ 14400 V32BIS/V42BIS ].

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 . SM 1.06 *0016 . Every man is innocent.. Until proven broke.
                 
PCRelay:NEWDIM -> #97 RelayNet (tm)
4.11              New Dimensions; 408-274-5550; 2 Gigs; MCI!
                              
Newsgroups: ba.test
From: bsherman@s27w007 (Bradley K. Sherman)
Subject: Another test
Followup-To: ba.test
Organization: Institute of Forest Genetics DataBase
Distribution: ba
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:35:24 GMT


One more time 6/30/92 1:36 PM.
Newsgroups: ba.test
From: tomrice@netcom.com (Tom R. Rice)
Subject: Re: what else?
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 05:35:14 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: ba.test

you idiot, why do you do this?

-- 
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tomrice@netcom.com              Holler Observatory 
CIS:71160,1122                  Longitude: 121 d  30 m  20 s W 
WB6BYH                          Latitude:   37 d  25 m  10 s N 
Newsgroups: ba.test
From: hoangdo@ntmtv.UUCP (Hoang Do)
Subject: to Todd from Megatest
Originator: hoangdo@nmtvs291
Reply-To: hoangdo@ntmtv.UUCP (Hoang Do)
Organization: Northern Telecom Inc, Mountain View, CA
Distribution: ca
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:15:36 GMT

Since it didn't work the other way, try this one.


 .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.
 | "I still believe in God, but God no longer believes     |
 |  in me."  The Mission UK				   |
 |							   |
 |  Hoang Do                                    	   |
 |  UUCP: {ames,pyramid!amdahl,hplabs}!ntmtv!hoangdo       |
 |  ARPANET: ntmtv!hoangdo@ames.arc.nasa.gov    	   |
 |                                                  	   |      
 .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.
From: prashant@ca.merl.com (Prashant Avashia)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: test
Keywords: test..........
Date: 31 Jul 92 16:50:40 GMT
Followup-To: ba.test
Distribution: regional
Organization: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Sunnyvale, CA.

test message..............




Newsgroups: ba.test
From: howells@george.arc.nasa.gov (John Howells)
Subject: Re: testing
Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr. Mtn Vw CA 94035
Distribution: ba
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 13:06:18 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.125609.3923@riacs.edu> sysadmin@olympus.arc.nasa.gov..arc.nasa.gov (Pete Ekanem) writes:
<testing testing testing
<===================================================================
<
<Test signature file - still under construction!!

This is a followup test.

--
                                        John Howells
                                        howells@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov 
                                        howells@earth.arc.nasa.gov
From: shibumi@joes.garage.com (Kenton A. Hoover)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: Test for news transfer
Date: 18 Jul 92 00:16:17 GMT
Reply-To: shibumi@joes.garage.com
Distribution: ba
Organization: Joe's Garage, San Francisco, KA

Don't you just hate reflectors?

| Kenton A. Hoover                                                            |
| P.O. Box 882643                                             +1 415 957 3614 |
| San Francisco, Kalifornia 94188-2643                shibumi@joes.garage.com |
|==============442.075+100=146.850+=444.625+131.8=440.900+114.8===============|
|         Zhivym boistam pochot i chest', a myertvym slava vechnaya!          |
Newsgroups: ba.test
From: soo@sidc.com
Subject: test...
Organization: Seiko Instrument Dev. Corp.
Distribution: all
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:37:07 GMT

This is test 1...


JHS
Newsgroups: ba.test
From: news@cypress.com
Subject: ba.test
Organization: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:29:54 GMT

This article was probably generated by a buggy news reader.
From: shibumi@joes.garage.com (Kenton A. Hoover)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: Alternate path test
Date: 18 Jul 92 01:20:12 GMT
Reply-To: shibumi@joes.garage.com
Distribution: ba
Organization: Joe's Garage, San Francisco, KA

And I still hate reflectors...

| Kenton A. Hoover                                                            |
| P.O. Box 882643                                             +1 415 957 3614 |
| San Francisco, Kalifornia 94188-2643                shibumi@joes.garage.com |
|==============442.075+100=146.850+=444.625+131.8=440.900+114.8===============|
|  I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of those comedians  |
From: des@des.unet.com (Dave Swanson)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: test 'From' address
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:27:10 GMT
Organization: N.E.T. Access Products Division, Santa Barbara


test2...
From: brister@vix.com (James Brister)
Newsgroups: ba.test
Subject: Test #4
Date: 28 Jul 1992 22:09:23 -0700
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab
Distribution: ba
NNTP-Posting-Host: gw.home.vix.com


Tue Jul 28 22:09:04 PDT 1992
Newsgroups: ba.weather
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Need Sectorized GOES Photos
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 22:54:37 GMT
Organization: Mail Group

Does anyone know of an hourly source for two or four kilometer
sectorized GOES satellite images, centered on Sacramento or Monterey?  I
would like to get the names of anyone at any University that currently
receives this information.

Thanks,
Will Estes         Internet: westes@netcom.com
Newsgroups: ba.politics
From: slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com (Mark Slagle)
Subject: Re: Help for California Libraries! Dire Need!
Reply-To: slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com
Followup-To: ba.politics
In-reply-to: jordan@IMSI.COM's message of 23 Jul 92 14:32:56 GMT
Organization: You wouldn't ask this if you'd seen my desk.
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 07:24:45 GMT

In article <4496@bacon.IMSI.COM>, jordan@IMSI.COM (Jordan Hayes) writes:

> The Chipmunk <asylvain@fritz.filenet.com> writes:

>> If you attend school, you pay tuition.

> Like the only person who benefits from someone attending school is
> the pupil?

The student is the primary beneficiary of the schooling, yes,
by a large measure.  The secondary benefits to "society" are
just that, secondary or, more properly, diffuse and unaccountable.
You could find out the value, though, by funding the schools
with voluntary donations.

> Sure, you'd save money at the state level.  You'd also guarantee
> that nearly everyone you interact with will be an idiot.

That is, generously, an unproven assumption.  It is
also highly unlikely to be true, even charitably 
assuming that by "idiot" you mean simply uneducated,
and that you don't really mean anything at all by
using the word "guarantee".
--
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Mark E. Slagle                                 PO Box 61059
slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com                       Sunnyvale, CA   94088
408-756-0895                                   USA
From: slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com (Mark Slagle)
Newsgroups: ba.politics
Subject: Re: Men and Abortion Rights
Date: 30 Jul 92 20:26:10 GMT
Reply-To: slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com
Distribution: ba
Organization: You wouldn't ask this if you'd seen my desk.
In-reply-to: c60a-zg@volga.Berkeley.EDU's message of Thu, 30 Jul 1992 03:23:03 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.032303.9092@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, c60a-zg@volga.Berkeley.EDU (Martin Guerrero-LabA) writes:

> In article <1992Jul29.235615.26198@ntmtv> jazanopa@ntmtv.UUCP (Patricia Jazanoski) writes:

>>    A man can choose what happens to his body.
>>    A woman cannot choose what happens to her body.

> May I add,
> The Unborn can NEVER choose what happens to his/her body.
> (at this rate).  

This is true.  This has always been true.  This will always
be true.  It's just not relevant.

Although it increasingly becomes a matter of concern as the
birth date approaches, it is not acceptable to sacrifice the
rights of the woman who is the potential mother to address
this concern.  You cannot give freedom to the unborn in any
case, but you certainly can't do it by enslaving the woman
who carries the fetus within her.
--
----
Mark E. Slagle                                 PO Box 61059
slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com                       Sunnyvale, CA   94088
408-756-0895                                   USA
Newsgroups: ba.politics
From: guido@island.COM (Guido Marx)
Subject: Re: Help for California Libraries! Dire Need!
Organization: Island Graphics Corp.  San Rafael, Ca.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:56:22 GMT

In article <SLAGLE.92Jul25002800@sgi417.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com> slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com writes:
>In article <4497@bacon.IMSI.COM>, jordan@IMSI.COM (Jordan Hayes) writes:
>
>> Don't you think that truck *already* pay their fair share (in fact,
>> they probably pay more than their share for the usage they get)?  Your
>> average tractor-trailer pays about $5k annually in road use taxes and
>> fees.
>
>No.  Not in proportion to the damages done to the highways
>by the big rigs.  Roads that exclude trucks last a very
>long time and stay very smooth so they do less damage to
>other vehicles.  Until trucking fees pay for virtually all
>highway maintainance, then they are not paying their "fair
>share".

And it isn't just the damages that trucks do to the roadways.
The cost of building the roadways themselves is greatly increased
becuase they must be engineered to withstand the weight of large
trucks.  My understanding is that this accounts for a good deal
of the cost of construction for new roadways.  


Guido





Xref: sparky ba.politics:3749 ca.politics:6005
From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: ba.politics,ca.politics
Subject: Re: help for california libraries! Dire need!
Date: 24 Jul 92 17:24:47 GMT
Distribution: ca
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA

In article <1992Jul23.150122.10108@unocal.com>, stgprao@xing.unocal.com (Richard Ottolini) writes:
> >In article <1992Jul22.030701.6889@informix.com>, proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts) writes:
> >
> >> But there *is* a market for private libraries - you, and people like you.
> >> Not enough of you to be a viable market and encourage people to open
> >> private libraries? - too bad.
> 
> Might be a cross between a chain bookstore and chain videostore-
> rent a book for a dollar a week.  The shelves would probably stuffed with
> bestsellers and a few classics :-(  It wouldn't be too hard for a video place
> to carry best sellers in this way.  All of the infra-structure is already there.
> Why don't they?

Why rent a book, when you can borrow it for "free" (tax-funded) at the
public library?

Also, your next paragraph explains the problem well.

> The market is pretty small.  I think the percentage of Americans who read
> one or more books a month is in the single digits.  I think the percentage
> who have visited a library in the past five years or read a book in the
> last year is still well under 50%.

Indeed.  When I was running for Santa Monica City Council in 1981, I
decided to find out where the money was being spent.  The library,
while not a major funding drain, was definitely a very elitist
institution.  Only 44% of the population of the city used the library,
according to the library's own figures.  That included not library
cards (which few people bothered to get), but also students who came
in once to look something up, etc.
-- 
Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer  My opinions, all mine!
"Well, maybe the Holocaust was right *for that culture*." -- a moral relativist
with whom I work.