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From: csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: clarinet??????
Message-ID: <1989Oct26.235001.14274@alembic.acs.com>
Date: 26 Oct 89 23:50:01 GMT
References: <331@lawnet.LawNet.Com> <2962@splut.conmicro.com> <333@lawnet.LawNet.Com>
Reply-To: csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack)
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In article <333@lawnet.LawNet.Com> greg@.LawNet.Com (Gregory G. Petersen) writes:
>In article <2962@splut.conmicro.com> jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) 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!
>>
>>
>>ClariNet is *not* on the regular Usenet. He is, instead, providing a
>>sample of his service on the (parallel) Biznet - the biz.* hierarchies.
>
>WRONG!  If that were the case I would not complain. It is clari - not biz.clari
>that I am complaining about.

Greg, you should really try to gather a little information before flaming
people.

The clari.all distribution is a commercial venture. It uses the same
transport system as Usenet to ship newswire clippings. It is *not* part
of Usenet.

If you're getting it and you aren't a subscriber, that means that a site
upstream of you blew it and illicitly added clari to your feed. This is 
in violation of their contract with Clarinet, unless it's a sample feed,
in which case it was simply rude to do it without asking you.

But in no way is it Brad Templeton's fault.

I think you owe Brad an apology, bucko.

Dave Mack