Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!intercon!kdb@intercon.uu.net From: kdb@intercon.uu.net (Kurt Baumann) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: In Moderation Message-ID: <1277@intercon.UUCP> Date: 15 Jul 89 17:41:36 GMT References: <24BE2661.3547@ateng.com> <24A91A67.28396@ateng.com> <3579@looking.on.ca> <1895@prune.bbn.com> Sender: news@intercon.UUCP Reply-To: Kurt Baumann Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 38 In article <24BE2661.3547@ateng.com>, chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes: > According to rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz): > >According to chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg): > >>Anterior intends to use the thoughts and works of hundreds of altruistic > >>givers -- the best and brightest of Usenet -- just to turn a buck. > > > >So what? I went to get sources out to people. How is my "cause" hurt > >by someone paying for what they can get elsewhere for free? > > I admit that IMN is not a direct threat to Rich's "cause" nor anyone else's. > However, IMN is a force for change; and I do not like the kind of change > that IMN, as I currently understand it, may cause. > > Perhaps many people will like the post-IMN Usenet; perhaps even I will. > But I'd rather not find out the hard way. I still do not understand what your problem is? You keep making it seem like IMN is going to take over the entire net. First thats impossible, second that is not what is going on. It is an alternate feed. It all comes out of the same tank, it is just that one of the hoses is filtering out the garbage. Is that such a problem? I am not a lawyer and talking about possible copyright infringments is not going to get the problem solved. Someone has to press the issue. Are you going to do that? Or what? The legal issue is not solved in an easy manner, you can bet that the recourse IMN will possibly take will be just to shut off the offending system. That sort of takes care of the problem doesn't it? If all systems who are paying want to send the feed on and they end up losing their feed of IMN that sort of solves that problem doesn't it? Those who find value in IMN and want to keep getting it will not pass it along. -- Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation 46950 Community Plaza Suite 101-132 Sterling, VA 22170 Phone: 703.450.7117