Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcdchg!ddsw1!karl
From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: clarinet??????
Summary: As long as it is in "biz", I don't see the problem
Message-ID: <1989Oct24.142617.4918@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 24 Oct 89 14:26:17 GMT
References: <331@lawnet.LawNet.Com>
Reply-To: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc., Mundelein, IL
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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!
>
>Others view are solicited.

As long as Brad keeps it in "biz", which is THE PLACE for commercial-type
articles (whether they promote something commercial indirectly or directly,
and especially if in volume) I don't have a problem with it.

If you don't want it, nuke the biz.clarinet.* from your system.  Problem
solved.  If you don't want ANY commercial postings, nuke biz.* (or better,
ask your feed(s) to turn it off for you).

BIZ was formed for those people who WANT to see commercial postings, from
hardware for sale ads to services to software companies to (gasp)
information providers.  All that was asked is that people who want to send a
"newgroup" for a specific sub-group of "biz" post a message to biz.config
first, asking for comments (and waiting a reasonable time for replies).  I 
don't recall Brad doing >that<, but it's not that big a deal.

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