BC>Your comparison may seem pertinent, but there is a huge difference between 
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  >analogy and the reality.  One, I don't see the small newspapers folding.
  >right here in San Diego, a city of 2-million, we have a number of 
ommunity
  >newspapers......very successful, too.  Two, these are commercial 
enterprises
  >where "might is right" in terms of market forces.  I'll buy your analogy 
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  >terms of agribusiness that has eaten up most of the nation's farmers.
The issue is whether or not the newspapers you refer to serve the
purpose of informing the public on a large scale.  There are a lot of
BC>But it's cheaper, per loaf of bread, to plant and harvest 10,000 acres at 

  >whack than a hundred.
  >Fact is....the dialup BBS can support one user per line at a time.  That's 
2
  >users a day per line if each takes their hour.  My down home web site can
  >support 24 users at a time at a fraction of the cost.....both to them as 
wel
  >as to me.
  >It's market forces and progress, Charles.  The BBS is like two tin cans on 
a
  >string compared to the Web and FTP capabilities.  Little more than a 
toy....
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No question that economics enters the picture; but from a liberty 
viewpoint I think those independent bbs' and nets like fidonet are just
as important in allowing everyone to communicate and share information.
The internet only requires that one plug be pulled.
Charles
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