Xref: utzoo misc.legal:25918 alt.sources.d:1800 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk!igb From: igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) Newsgroups: misc.legal,alt.sources.d Subject: Re: Charging the net... Message-ID: <&NK_X?$@uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> Date: 8 May 91 13:48:20 GMT References: <1991May4.185758.7146@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <3460@ksr.com> Sender: news@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (News with an UZI) Organization: BT Fulcrum, Birmingham Lines: 17 In article <3460@ksr.com> jfw@ksr.com (CNEWS MUST LIVE!) writes: > mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) writes: > >I think that's fair enough; and I would argue that connecting to Usenet DOES > >constitute solicitation of material, since you must explicitly request from > >your feed site that the material in any given newsgroup be sent to you. > > Yet another transatlantic difference. Over here, it is not uncommon for > feed sites to offer new newsgroups until you ask them to shut you off. > But then again, we don't have the UnKindNET telling us what to do... Rubbish. If you have a feed which contains !whatever for the groups you DON'T want, then you will get new groups; if you have a feed which just lists the groups you want, you won't. Simple. No transatlantic differences. Nothing whatsoever to do with uknet. ian