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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: The purification of net.sources.mac
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Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 12:35:20 EST
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> 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... :-)

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