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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
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Date: 10 Aug 89 00:24:09 GMT
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Karl:  thar ya go again!

The flap was about whether or not what came off the net, could be used
for profit by the person responsible for putting it on the net in the
first place.

Of course, 'n' thousand people seem to enjoy the postings in questions. So,
the idea of merely using that for a profit-making situation didn't add
to net.overhead at all.

Placing an ad on the net, though, is a bit different.  First, it uses net
resources for the sole profit of one person.  And it is specifically against
the charter of UseNet (or so it seems to me).

Not so slight a difference.

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