Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!usc!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ark1!dsill From: dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Fundraising on the net (was Re: misc.headlines.unitex moderator RESIGNS) Message-ID: <1989Nov18.044942.26624@relay.nswc.navy.mil> Date: 18 Nov 89 04:49:42 GMT References: <3708@ccnysci.UUCP> <2388@stl.stc.co.uk> <9739@zodiac.ADS.COM> <5408@cps3xx.UUCP> <9813@zodiac.ADS.COM> <36577@apple.Apple.COM> Reply-To: dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill) Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA Lines: 49 In article <36577@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >Under the circumstances, it was the proper thing. If we allow one charity to >start fundraising on the network, you're opening up the doors for *every* >charity to spend the networks money pushing their causes. Oh my god! That was a close call, huh Chuq? Whew, to think we came *this* *close* (thumb and forefinger barely separated) to some sleaze bags taking advantage of *our* FLAMENET, er USENET, for their greedy, selfish agenda. Well, we can all heave a huge sigh of relief, folks, Super Chuq has saved the net! >The possibility of seeing a couple of hundred groups (no matter how >good the causes) posting on the network looking for bucks was enough >to scare me -- much as I like the Sierra Club or Amnesty >International, USENET is a place for information, not fundraising >drives. Right, USENET is a place for *information*, not information about needy causes and worthwhile charities. Enough flamage (sometimes there's just no such thing as enough flamage :-) I think charities and nonprofit organizations are at least as deserving of the right to use USENET as anyone, if not more so. Misc.headlines.unitex, though, is certainly not the right place for it. Recently, I brought up the topic of a newsgroup for just that purpose. All of the dozen or so replies I received were favorable, and if we could find a suitable moderator I think it'd pass. What's wrong with one more group Chuq? Especially one that could funnel some positive energy outside the net? >And the flames that this might cause are nothing to the flames that'd happen >when PBS starts running its auction over the net.... Which is about as likely as running their ads over the net... Oh, wait, that's right, I *have* seen ads on the net. Check out comp.newprod, not to mention various .signatures. Okay, then, it's about as likely as running customer support over the net... Oh, yeah, I've seen *that* too. Again, enough flamage. We *all* exploit the net, Chuq. It doesn't bother me in the least. In fact, I wouldn't be here if I couldn't get something out of it; and I suspect you'd be long gone, too. -- Dave Sill (dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil)