Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site inuxh.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!inuxh!verner From: verner@inuxh.UUCP (Matt Verner) Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: commercialism and net.micro.amiga going the way of .mac Message-ID: <373@inuxh.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 13:14:05 EST Article-I.D.: inuxh.373 Posted: Fri Nov 1 13:14:05 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 04:56:53 EST References: <5717@fortune.UUCP> <629@ecsvax.UUCP> <1828@hao.UUCP> <715@othervax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Consumer Products, Indianapolis Lines: 34 Xref: watmath net.news.group:4174 net.micro.amiga:573 > bout > costs, traffic and rule breaking. > ... > The bulk of the current postings in net.micro.amiga are from so called > 'developers' who receive special treatment from Commodore to enhance the > commercial value of the Amiga, with an increasing volume of traffic from > Commodore itself, answering technical questions, making reassuring noises, > promising software and documentation issues etc. It is also very clear that > there is much e-mail being passed through the network between Commodore and > its developers. > > There is no argument that this is extremely useful and interesting traffic > to the Amiga world, and peripherally interesting to many of us, but surely > it is *PURE COMMERCIALISM* with the cost being met by the network as a whole, > in some cases by *COMPETITORS* to Commodore, whether directly or indirectly. > > Quite honestly, the only real solution I see to the current net malaise, is > to retrench ourselves into a pure UNIX network, with moderated feeds from > other interest groups, and perhaps even with full moderation on all groups. > I agree 100%. I am hardley a disinterested party because I have been on the edge of buying an Amiga for a few weeks (waiting on some substance in the software dept). I have a lot to loose if this group were limited in some fashion but I do feel that the non-commercial nature of the net MUST be preserved or total breakdown is likely... Matt UUCP: ...ihnp4!inuxc!verner "The whole point of this sentence is to clearly explain the point this sentence is making."