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From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Red Ryder 11.0 Announcement
Keywords: white knight
Message-ID: <999@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Date: 27 Oct 89 20:54:31 GMT
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In article <1866@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> jnoh@jolnet.UUCP (Jay Noh) writes:
>However, now that everyone is voicing their opinion on this matter, I must
>say that any commercial use of the newsgroup should be totally banned.

What denotes commercial use of the net? If its posting upgrade information,
then Symantec had better stop posting those upgrades out here and letting
you know whats going on with future updates, to much commercialism..
At the same time lets all flame every last person that occasionally posts
something for sale here...then we can also stop talking about any 
commercial product here because everytime we talk about ATM or any other
product, (Whether it be good or bad) is a commercial for that product too.

While I am carrying this to the extreme, I do not think you can really
draw a good and fine line of whats commercial and whats not. Sure there
are probably slews of other ways to argue this both ways...I for one
consider any information "commercial" or otherwise to be worthwhile if
I am interested in that information. You want to start banning things,
go to some other country...This is America...We have constiutional rights
to free speech here...and unless there are rules posted on a regular
basis that "clearly" and "irrefutably" define what can and cannot be posted
here within the obvious scope that this is Macintosh oriented discussion
group. I think that banning various postings because you don't want to
read them, or don't like them is a bad idea..

While I expect a variety of controversy from this posting, thats fine
with me, it all goes to prove that trying to ban something creates more of
a problem than you tried to fix.

As a last note Jay, as you mentioned that you are not planning to upgrade
to White knight, thats your loss...no one elses..(IMHO)....

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Norm Goodger				SysOp - MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862
3Com Corp.				Co-SysOp FreeSoft RT - GEnie.
Enterprise Systems Division             (I disclaim anything and everything)
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