Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-ngp.UTEXAS Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!amd!amdcad!amdimage!prls!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!clyde From: clyde@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (Clyde W. Hoover) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: The purification of net.sources.mac Message-ID: <2527@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 14:42:14 EST Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.2527 Posted: Thu Oct 24 14:42:14 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Oct-85 04:29:58 EST Distribution: net Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 35 Re: proposal to 'ban' shareware from net.source.mac. ** Flamethrowers to high 1. ARRRGH!!! Much of my MAC software comes from the net. Don't you clowns DARE cut off my source of software just because 'Somebody is using USENET for monetary gain'. Give me a >>break<<. Maybe, just MAYBE if EVERYONE who downloads a shareware program from the net sends in the requested donation, the programmer will maybe, just MAYBE feel their time and effort was economically justified and maybe, just MAYBE they will put some more effort into a new version or a new program. I strongly suspect there ain't no one getting rich off of shareware, bunkos. 2. Who do >>you<< (whoever you are) think you are to control what get posted to USENET? Anarchy and freedom, isn't that what USENET is all about? If I want a newsgroup and my feed doesn't give to me, I will find some other site to feed me. >>You<< (whoever you are) object to shareware in net.sources.mac, >>I<< object to creationist garbage in net.origins. Then am I right in calling for the suppression of creationists? 3. Somebody ALWAYS pays the bills for distribution. If it's Compuserve, the user pays the connect charges. If it's USENET, then lots of administrators pay the phone bills. If your administrator doesn't like paying for net.sources.mac, or net.flame, or net.religion.jewish, then they can choose not to. ** Flamethrowers off, shields to full power -- Shouter-To-Dead-Parrots @ Univ. of Texas Computation Center; Austin, Texas "All life is a blur of Republicans and meat." -Zippy the Pinhead clyde@ngp.UTEXAS.EDU, clyde@sally.UTEXAS.EDU ...!ihnp4!ut-ngp!clyde, ...!allegra!ut-ngp!clyde