Xref: utzoo rec.humor.d:1209 news.misc:2130 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!scdpyr!era From: era@scdpyr.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold) Newsgroups: rec.humor.d,news.misc Subject: Re: Yes, I can sell a jokebook via USENET. Message-ID: <1057@ncar.ucar.edu> Date: 29 Nov 88 04:43:31 GMT References: <2391@looking.UUCP> <79090@sun.uucp> Sender: news@ncar.ucar.edu Reply-To: era@scdpyr.UCAR.EDU (Ed Arnold) Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 21 In article <79090@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: > >On the other hand -- on the Internet, commercial activity is explicitly >against the rules and CAN get you in trouble. Add that to the large number >of Internet-based NNTP links and Brad's all-too-true statement above about >it happening all the time, and ask yourself if USENET is violating Internet >rules.... > Maybe I'm dense, but I don't understand. Brad's commercial activity is *overt*. However, everytime I mail Chuq at sun.com because my sun is broke and I want it fixed, *that's commercial activity too* ... I'm quite sure that a lot of sun customers (and apollo customers and mips customers and blah blah) are using a lot of internet bandwidth to get their systems serviced, albeit in a *covert* manner. So, what's the real difference? Isn't this discussion just a lot of "angels on the head of a pin" silliness? __________ Ed Arnold * NCAR (Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research) * Mesa Lab PO Box 3000 * Boulder, CO 80307-3000 * 303-497-1253 * 303-494-6949 (home) era@ncar.ucar.edu [128.117.64.4] * {ames,gatech,noao,...}!ncar!era