From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hao!cires!nbires!crp
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: Commercial uses of the network
Article-I.D.: nbires.130
Posted: Mon Apr 18 18:22:02 1983
Received: Thu Apr 28 19:11:13 1983
References: decvax.471

Armando is right about commercial use of the net.
The only way the net will continue to to be the more-or-less
homogeneous and "free" service it is is if we all exercise good judgement
in our use of the net and exert negative feedback on those who abuse it.

The net exists because it fills a need at a price that sites have
been willing to pay (or they have left it.)
New product or service announcements (and a means of rendezvous, perhaps)
are something that almost all sites are interested in and are clearly
in the domain of interests that the net exists to satisfy.
Let us, by all means, continue to *hear* about products and services
from commercial sites (I work for one, after all).
I agree that commercial traffic (between a business and a customer)
must be paid for by the parties involved, though, and not the net as a whole.

	Charlie Price  --  NBI (The Word Processor Folks!)  Boulder, Colorado
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