Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Franchise Opportunity
Keywords: Commerce, commercial, business, etc
Message-ID: <3992@looking.on.ca>
Date: 13 Aug 89 04:54:59 GMT
References:  <434@tp2.Waterloo.NCR.COM> <1989Aug9.140945.5371@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <937@utoday.UUCP> <339@m2xenix.UUCP> <943@utoday.UUCP>
Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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Class: misc

People are, once again, missing the whole point of what USENET is.

USENET is a network, run by site administrators by authority of machine
owners, ostensibly for the benefit of the net readers on those machines.

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	There is only one criterion on Usenet.  Do readers want it and are
	admins thus willing to pay to move it around for them?
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That's it.  THERE IS NO GOVERNING IDEOLOGY.  Say that to yourself until
you understand it.  Usenet is not commercial or non-commercial.  It is
not public.  It has no charter or official spirit.  It has no rules, only
conventions.  It has *no* ideology, other than, of course, the ideology of
having no ideology...  :-)

So cut the talk about all these things.  Your discussions are pointless
unless they answer the only real question.  Anarchy is not about having
an ideology.  It's about letting everybody have their own.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473