Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!ccncsu!purdue!news.cs.indiana.edu!spool.mu.edu!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!helios!cnh5730 From: cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: *** Top Prize Winner - IMPACT Software Contest *** Message-ID: Date: 25 Apr 91 16:44:34 GMT References: <1991Apr25.130046.26086@cs.cornell.edu> <1991Apr25.134348.25432@ni.umd.edu> <1991Apr25.143604.3979@macc.wisc.edu> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Lines: 28 In article <1991Apr25.143604.3979@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes: Excuse me? I'm quite sure that is a violation of NSFnet appropriate use guidelines. 1) NSFnet is not USENET 2) The non-commercial restrictions to net access historically have been pretty much a matter of netiquette, and netiquette, like any other set of social norms, evolves (read "changes") over time to suit the real-time needs of the society. example: within the last year, HP-Apollo users demanded that HP apply for permission with net-administrators to make a newsgroup part of their service-support structure, and that updates and the like be distributed through this newsgroup. This arrangement was approved by the net-gods and is now in place. 3) Brad Cox recently posted to this very same USENET newsgroup suggesting that (and I paraphrase) severe separation of edu-research and commercial enterprise may be a contributing factor in American difficulty with being competitive with, for example, the Japanese. 4) I never cease to wonder at the willingness of folks to cut off their nose to spite their face. -- "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche