Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!edelheit@MITRE.ARPA From: edelheit@MITRE.ARPA (Jeff Edelheit) Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Re: want ads in mailing lists Message-ID: <1734@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 07:34:39 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.1734 Posted: Thu Sep 26 07:34:39 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Oct-85 08:24:45 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 28 Jack - I really agree with you and have raised the issue with Dave Towson (the super-helpful administrator of info-cpm). The bottom line is this: virtually all of these advertisements are coming from the USENET side of the internet, not the ARPA/MILNET side. It appears that not only does usenet approve of this activity, but they even have a specialized distribution list just for selling stuff. I applaud the restraint of the ARPA/MILNET users have shown in not abusing the net with advertisements of their own. (I would really hate to see "our" side of the net affected by some whistle-blower complaining about the mis-use of DoD facilites, etc.) They only way to stop these messages would be to drop the gateway between USENET and ARPA/MILNET. I, for one, feel that the help and information I receive from our USENET friends is worth the trouble of the for sale notes. My opinion is based on seeing only a few for sale notes every week; if we really started getting a bunch of them, then I might have to rethink my stand. One possible approach is that if USENET has a specialized distribution list just for advertisements, then they somehow try to insure that all adverts appear just on that list and not on info-cpm or any of the other lists. Anyone else have an opinion on the subject? Jeff Edelheit (edelheit@mitre.arpa)