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From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Commercial use of the net; net.review proposed
Message-ID: <1095@utcsstat.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Sep-83 08:42:26 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 21 08:42:26 1983
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the problem with this discussion is that there are A LOT of commercial
sites on the net, and a LOT of poor ones. this is what I would see
happening. Frozzbozz magic gizmo company posts something saying
that their gizmo is the most wonderful thing to ever have been
designed in all of Lower Slugabode. The Gimble fantastic gizmo
company posts news describing why Frozzbozz's is a crock, and why
theirs is the neatest and most wonderful gizmo.

laura at utcsstat, posts news about why the hrdware buying turkeys decided
to get us a Frozzbozz and a Gible gizmo, that they are BOTH crocks,
and crash utcsstat at a new, unprecidented rate. (look folks, we are up
10% of the time!!) and how all the designers of lower Slugabode should
be sent back to the Lower Slugabode school for rotten engineers.

the aforementioned rotten engineers decide to sue laura at utcsstat for
telling the world what awful crocks they are foisting on the public.
Suddenly USENET is big news. AND...

poor sites decide to drop advertising newsgroups. Unfortunately they
may decide to drop most or all newsgroups.

some companies decide to drop usenet since it is obviously an organ
of 'so-and-so magic company'.

some sites decide to drop out because they will not service traffic from
their competitors.

people decide to post to net.general,net.misc,net.unix-wizards,net.periphs,
and net.salespitch.frozzbozz. BOOM. We now have advertising on the
ARPAnet, via net.unixwizards. Boy will there be a big stink about it!
Enough stink to close the unixwizards gateway permanently, I think.

there probably is enough interest for a commercial network, but I think that
it should be an entirely separate network.

Laura Creighton
utzoo!utcsstat!laura