Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!mips!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!cs4w+ From: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Charles William Swiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Do *NOT* reveal or mention "hacking" information (was Re: paper clip trick) Message-ID: Date: 12 Nov 90 08:35:40 GMT References: <14087@arisia.Xerox.COM> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 32 In-Reply-To: <14087@arisia.Xerox.COM> To be honest with you, I am less than concerned with whether or not company X is on the net or not. I'm a student at CMU; my net access does not depend on corporate policy of a company that I might offend. Many, not all, of the other people on comp.sys.apple2 get on from college campus networks or through pay networks such as Compu$erve and the like. The percentage of people on the net from companies that might decide to kill their net subscription due to the posting of information to deprotect a program is very small. To restrict the flow of information is a violation of the UseNET operating guidelines. UseNET is provided to exchange ideas, useful information, and so forth. The placement of restrictions on the topics that may be discussed is censorship. That is what you're condoning, isn't it? Just for the sake of information, their are 675 .com sites in the current arpa Internet list. There are 8508 .edu sites and 3400 .mil sites. I'd say the educational and military sites are a little more important than the .com sites. The bitnet is even more polarized towards educational and even local BBS' than towards software companies. This is not to say that the commercial companies on the net don't provide very helpful and useful contributions. People from Apple, Claris and a few others have been very generous with their time in order to help out people on comp.sys.apple2. But the net does not depend on commercial sites to such the extent as you make it seem. -- Charles William Swiger cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu