Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Franchise Opportunity Keywords: Commerce, commercial, business, etc Message-ID: <3992@looking.on.ca> Date: 13 Aug 89 04:54:59 GMT References: <434@tp2.Waterloo.NCR.COM> <1989Aug9.140945.5371@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <937@utoday.UUCP> <339@m2xenix.UUCP> <943@utoday.UUCP> Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Lines: 21 Class: misc People are, once again, missing the whole point of what USENET is. USENET is a network, run by site administrators by authority of machine owners, ostensibly for the benefit of the net readers on those machines. ***************************** There is only one criterion on Usenet. Do readers want it and are admins thus willing to pay to move it around for them? ***************************** That's it. THERE IS NO GOVERNING IDEOLOGY. Say that to yourself until you understand it. Usenet is not commercial or non-commercial. It is not public. It has no charter or official spirit. It has no rules, only conventions. It has *no* ideology, other than, of course, the ideology of having no ideology... :-) So cut the talk about all these things. Your discussions are pointless unless they answer the only real question. Anarchy is not about having an ideology. It's about letting everybody have their own. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473