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From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: clarinet??????
Message-ID: <2962@splut.conmicro.com>
Date: 20 Oct 89 23:53:16 GMT
References: <331@lawnet.LawNet.Com>
Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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In article <331@lawnet.LawNet.Com> greg@lawnet.LawNet.Com (Gregory G. Petersen) writes:
> Am I amazed to see that clarinet is now on the network with its comeerical 
>venture? No -- what I am is angry that it is here. When Brad decided to
>announce this idea on the net many of us said this would happen and
>we were told that it would not.  The question is "now what"?  I
>am deleting his newsgroups from this system and I suggest that is the
>only way to keep him off the net with clarinet!

*sigh*.

ClariNet is *not* on the regular Usenet. He is, instead, providing a
sample of his service on the (parallel) Biznet - the biz.* hierarchies.
That's the kind of thing that biz.* is for - business ventures. If Brad
wanted to take eeeeeeeeeevil commercial advantage of the net, all he'd
need to do would have been to make it alt.clarinet.sample. Instead, he
followed the rules, and made appropriate use of an available facility.

Brad is *not* using the Usenet to distribute his service, except for
links between two systems who are both his customers, and have agreed to
use the link for that purpose.

If you think that commercial use of the net is eeeeeeeevil, then I
suggest you get your upstream feeds to not send you the entire biz.*
hierarchy - for that's what it's there for.

Further, if you decide to trash rec.humor.funny off of your system -
despite the fact that it's not a ClariNet venture - you're welcome to,
but I'll make this offer: any of your downstream sites can contact me
and I'll arrange to feed it to them.

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL   | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jay@splut.conmicro.com       (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity.
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