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From: cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Illegal Editing, Tampering of ST Report by Greg Lindahl
Message-ID: <1990Jun5.214047.14634@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 90 21:40:47 GMT
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In article <8290@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> grieggs@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (John T. Grieggs) writes:
>In article <1990Jun4.235418.25341@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@astsun8.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>>In article <8279@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> grieggs@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (John T. Grieggs) writes:
>>>I would like to recieve an un-edited ST Report via mailing list.  Is
>>>there anyone out there with such a list?  I do not have an account on
>>>any of the pay services currently...
>>
>>No. ST Report contains advertising. You work on a government computer,
>>and the networks such a mailing list would use to talk to you are
>>controlled by organizations that don't allow commercial use of their
>>networks.
>>
>I work on a computer at a government-funded private research corporation -
>we are actually owned by Caltech, if I am not mistaken.  I knew you held
>this opinion, and posted to see if you held the only opinion.  I do
>regularly recieve advertising literature via snail-mail here, and nobody
>seems to be upset about that.  Then there are the .forsale newsgroups...

Well, the difference between receiving junk snail-mail and junk
email is that the sender of junk snail-mail pays the postage.  In
the email case, the "postage" is bourne (little unix humor there) by
all the machine between the originating machine and the ultimate 
destination.  This could be literally hundreds or thousands of machines.
Why should they have to contribute their resources to proliferate
someone's advertisements?

Yes, the misc.forsale groups seem to be an anomoly.  I guess they
were created for the convenience of net.users.  It is hard to
justify their existence based on the above premise unless they
are widely used by many sites.

Regards,

Chris
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