Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!moegate!soley
From: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Live News & Professional Electronic Publications in USENET Format
Message-ID: <384@moegate.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 89 12:21:48 GMT
References: <3492@looking.on.ca> <356@ubbs-nh.MV.COM> <4496@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment
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In article <356@ubbs-nh.MV.COM>, noel@ubbs-nh.MV.COM (Noel B. Del More  Nashua) writes:
> Despite his previous pleas and arguements to the contrary, this gentleman
> has, is and will continue to use the network for his own personal gain
> until such time as his access to the net is servered permanently.

Brad is establishing a commercial service. It uses the same technology as 
USENET but it is NOT USENET. I repeat, it is a commercial service just like 
Genie or CompuServe, he has announced it according to protocol in comp.newprod.
He will not be using non-subscribers systems and resources to transmit his 
service nor does he plan to redistribute material originating on USENET. I 
wish some of the Brad bashers would think a little before they post. ClariNET 
is a great opportunity for them, from now on every time Brad tries to do 
something they object to he can now be told, "you have you own network now, 
use it". With the amount of time that will ahve to be spent running the thing 
I doubt he'll have much time to irritate you anyway.

Frankly with all the pitfalls inherent in using something as open and 
insecure as the netnews software as the foundation for a commerical service,
I think Brad has just opened himself a very large can of worms. However I
recoginize that it's Brad's own personal can of worms, and neither I or anyone 
else on USENET has any business trying to stop him from getting into it. 
Only if he tries to steal either resources or material from USENET will it 
become a concern of ours. I may subsribe to CLARINET for while just to see
how it turn's out, it's cheap and for me Waterloo is a local call. I wish
Brad luck in this new commerical venture, I think he's going to need it.
-- 
  Norman Soley - The Communications Guy - Ontario Ministry of the Environment
soley@moegate.UUCP  or if you roll your own:  uunet!attcan!ncrcan!moegate!soley
   The Minister speaks for the Ministry, I speak for myself. Got that! Good. 
     Stay smart, go cool, be happy, it's the only way to get what you want