Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!tank!shamash!nic.MR.NET!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin Subject: Re: clarinet?????? Message-ID: <1989Oct21.020748.4431@NCoast.ORG> Date: 21 Oct 89 02:07:48 GMT References: <331@lawnet.LawNet.Com> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: news.sysadmin Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH Lines: 33 As quoted from <331@lawnet.LawNet.Com> by greg@lawnet.LawNet.Com (Gregory G. Petersen): +--------------- | 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! +--------------- The clari.all hierarchy is, like alt.all, not part of the mainstream Usenet. You are perfectly free to out !clari.all in your sys file and request your newsfeeds not to pass it on to you. So what's the problem? If the problem is that you somehow think that newsfeeds should be restricted to the mainstream Usenet only and not pass anything not in the mainstream, you are in the minority. Why is the clari.all hierarchy not legal for distri- bution via Usenet channels, while alt.all, unix-pc.all, u3b.all, pubnet.all, etc. are? If the problem is that you consider clari.all to be a bad neighbor despite the fact that it is NOT a mainstream Usenet hierarchy, fine. Request to your newsfeeds that they not send it to you. But don't presume to order the rest of the sites on the Usenet around about what they're allowed to transmit via Usenet distribution channels. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@NCoast.ORG uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu bsa@telotech.uucp 161-7070 (MCI), ALLBERY (Delphi), B.ALLBERY (GEnie), comp-sources-misc@backbone [comp.sources.misc-related mail should go ONLY to comp-sources-misc@] *Third party vote-collection service: send mail to allbery@uunet.uu.net (ONLY)*