Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uiucuxc Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!bantz From: bantz@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: The purification of net.sources.mac Message-ID: <96900016@uiucuxc> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 23:23:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucuxc.96900016 Posted: Tue Nov 5 23:23:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 07:26:43 EST References: <2527@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> Lines: 21 Nf-ID: #R:ut-ngp.UTEXAS:-252700:uiucuxc:96900016:000:1198 Nf-From: uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU!bantz Nov 5 22:23:00 1985 One of the express goals of the creationists is to force schools to buy equal amounts of creationist and "evolutionist" teaching materials, and to get funds for their religious endeavors from NSF. This doesn't seem much less commercial than the "freeware" postings to me. The AI and laser-lovers notesfiles (from ARPAnet) contain a large number of articles explicitly concerned with commercial products, by people who stand to benefit from their success. I find the information useful, and don't mind at all paying (however indirectly) for its transmission. Finally, there has been quite a bit of traffic in more than one group on SDI/starwars; a good bit of the passionate argument for SDI comes, of course, from defense contractors who are going to get a whole lot more than a few $10 volutary donations for their efforts. My dictionary, by the way, for those concerned with the "principle," says that "commercial" denotes LARGE SCALE buying and selling of goods, or BUSINESS. (An alternate definition is "intellectual exchange" - is that endangered too?) It seem fa.laser-lovers, net.ai, and fa.arms-d should go before net.sources is even an issue. I would prefer to keep them all.