Xref: utzoo misc.misc:7436 misc.forsale:7156 news.admin:6534 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!utoday!greenber From: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Newsgroups: misc.misc,misc.forsale,news.admin Subject: Re: Franchise Opportunity Keywords: Commerce, commercial, business, etc Message-ID: <939@utoday.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 89 03:39:56 GMT References: <434@tp2.Waterloo.NCR.COM> <1989Aug9.140945.5371@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <937@utoday.UUCP> <1989Aug10.151622.871@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Reply-To: greenber@.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Organization: UNIX Today!, Manhasset, NY Lines: 42 In article <1989Aug10.151622.871@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes: > >Actually, the first flap (there were many) was about someone posting >advertisements for a compilation, in print, some of which came off the net >(and some of which did not). That was, if you remember, the commercial use >which started all the shouting and noise. > The only flap I seem to recall getting out of hand was over r.h.f & some of the comercial services. > >There is no charter of Usenet, just some general agreements among the >participants. This is not Fidonet; you cannot be "excommunicated" per-se. > No official charter: you're right. A certain tradition, a certain respect for other people, a certain respect for that which is generally accepted. I consider that a charter. >Why is it ok if one person puts an ad on the net, but not ok if a different >person does it? Depends on the ad, I suppose. "Dinnette For Sale" ads seem to go against the above mentioned charter. "Hey, I'm using this product of my effort to make a buck", doesn't. > I fail to understand the fundamental difference between these >activities, unless the "correctness" of the action is related to the person >rather than the content! If that is all the difference you're seeing, this is most certainly gonna be a fruitless discussion. We should take it to E-mail, rather than pester those about us.... -- Ross M. Greenberg UNIX TODAY! 594 Third Avenue New York New York 10016 Review Editor Voice:(212)-889-6431 BBS:(212)-889-6438 uunet!utoday!greenber BIX: greenber MCI: greenber CIS: 72461,3212