Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!ames!elroy!ucla-cs!uci-ics!nagel@paris.ics.uci.edu From: nagel@paris.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Live News & Professional Electronic Publications in USENET Format Message-ID: <18110@paris.ics.uci.edu> Date: 17 Jun 89 18:35:27 GMT References: <3492@looking.on.ca> <4494@ficc.uu.net> <307@lawnet.LawNet.Com> <17588@paris.ics.uci.edu> <141@unifax.UUCP> <18057@paris.ics.uci.edu> <8390@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Sender: news@paris.ics.uci.edu Reply-To: nagel@paris.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS Lines: 37 In-reply-to: wnp@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Wolf Paul) In article <8390@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>, wnp@killer (Wolf Paul) writes: | >If it works out, then great for Brad and all his subscribers. But | >it's too bad he doesn't feel that doing something for the net just for | >that reason is good enough. | |So maybe he has to make a living somehow? The gratitude of the net just |doesn't put bread on the table, or pay the phone bill, etc. As I recently answered in private mail, I have been talking about what I originally said in a referenced article. That is, Brad has a right to do anything he likes and he is entitled to charge for the service he is providing, especially that which he must pay for himself, i.e., the news articles he will transmit. What I originally mentioned was the software for article filtering he will only give to ClariNet users and people who licence it from him, presumably for a price. I never implied he should not be allowed to do this, merely that so many others have contributed to the net for no monetary gain, while Brad feels it necessary to make money off it. Not wrong, just untraditional. Nobody is forcing anyone to be traditional; it is just sad that it is happening. |And why is it o.k. for UUNET to charge for its services without being |flamed as being contrary to the "spirit of the net", while Clarinet |is being bashed for the same thing? Bashing? I wasn't bashing, at least I never meant to be. I think the prime difference between UUNET and ClariNet is that UUNET is non-profit. I don't think that ClariNet is. If I have misread yet another article, I apologize. Once again, Brad is entitled to make a profit. He will if enough people on the net think that his service is worth it. Mark Nagel @ UC Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science +----------------------------------------+ ARPA: nagel@ics.uci.edu | Charisma doesn't have jelly in the | UUCP: ucbvax!ucivax!nagel | middle. -- Jim Ignatowski |