Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!greipa!decwrl!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: The purification of net.sources.mac Message-ID: <1594@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 12:35:20 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1594 Posted: Fri Oct 25 12:35:20 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 05:29:27 EST References: <2527@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> Distribution: net Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center Lines: 38 > Re: proposal to 'ban' shareware from net.source.mac. > ** Flamethrowers to high > > 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? Ah, but I do not (nor even try to) make money by posting my garbage to net.origins. The issue is perhaps less whether postings are garbage than whether an explicitly non-commercial venture is being used for commercial gain - gain actual *or* potential. The issue is complicated, of course, by the fact that many of the postings do not come from the authors, and so may not be said to represent direct efforts on the part of those authors to profit from their work on USENET. Anarchy and freedom may be *part* of what USENET is about, but it is so, subject to other considerations. Many of the postings on this subject seem to proceed on the premise of elevating one purpose (out of many) of USENET to primacy over all others, then insisting that, relative to *that* goal, the answer is simple. What is simple is such analysis. What's the answer? How should I know? I'm a creationist, ergo, I know nothing... :-) -- | Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois --+-- | "The voice of the Lord is full of majesty." | Psalm 29:4