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From: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Newsgroups: misc.misc,misc.forsale,news.admin
Subject: Re: Franchise Opportunity
Keywords: Commerce, commercial, business, etc
Message-ID: <939@utoday.UUCP>
Date: 11 Aug 89 03:39:56 GMT
References:  <434@tp2.Waterloo.NCR.COM> <1989Aug9.140945.5371@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <937@utoday.UUCP> <1989Aug10.151622.871@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
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In article <1989Aug10.151622.871@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
>
>Actually, the first flap (there were many) was about someone posting
>advertisements for a compilation, in print, some of which came off the net
>(and some of which did not).  That was, if you remember, the commercial use 
>which started all the shouting and noise.
>

The only flap I seem to recall getting out of hand was over r.h.f &
some of the comercial services.

>
>There is no charter of Usenet, just some general agreements among the
>participants.  This is not Fidonet; you cannot be "excommunicated" per-se.
>

No official charter:  you're right.  A certain tradition, a certain
respect for other people, a certain respect for that which is generally
accepted.  I consider that a charter.

>Why is it ok if one person puts an ad on the net, but not ok if a different
>person does it?

Depends on the ad, I suppose.  "Dinnette For Sale" ads seem to go against
the above mentioned charter.  "Hey, I'm using this product of my effort to
make a buck", doesn't.

>  I fail to understand the fundamental difference between these
>activities, unless the "correctness" of the action is related to the person
>rather than the content!

If that is all the difference you're seeing, this is most certainly gonna
be a fruitless discussion.  We should take it to E-mail, rather than
pester those about us....



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