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From: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: chain letter
Message-ID: <131@hou3c.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Nov-83 01:22:52 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 30 01:22:52 1983
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To Mark Horton:
Aren't you overreacting to this?  First, the cost of mailing a letter
is much less than the cost of distributing an article to the entire
net.  Thus something like the "missing socks" discussion probably
consumed more resources than this letter has or is likely to.  Second,
the definition of "useful purpose" varies from person to person.  At
least the letter was a more original way to use up bandwidth than the
socks discussion.  (I don't have anything in particular against socks,
mind you.  That is just the particular discussion that chased me out
of net.misc.)  Third, as far as I know no site has ever been taken
off the net for misbehavior and I would oppose any attempt to do so
except under *extremely* serious circumstances.  Fourth, the letter
does *not* ask for money; it states "DO NOT SEND MONEY, FOR FAITH
HAS NO PRICE. [emphasis in original]"  Indeed, it is not clear where
you would send money even if you wanted to.  Therefore, laws against
pyramid schemes and the like do not apply.

I am posting this followup to net.flame, which is probably where the
original article should have gone.
					Kenneth Almquist