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From: hall@ittral.UUCP (Doug Hall)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: MCI ad
Message-ID: <141@ittral.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 12:44:45 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 16 12:44:45 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Apr-85 05:35:35 EST
References: <405@nmtvax.UUCP> <633@vortex.UUCP>
Reply-To: hall@ittral.UUCP (Doug hall)
Organization: ITT Telecom B&CC Eng. Group, Raleigh, NC
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Summary: 

In article <633@vortex.UUCP> lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) writes:
>                  In fact, as the network grows, I'd expect to see
>a lot more blatant ads, many of which will probably be voluminous.
>And you know what?  There's not a damn thing we can do about it.
>
>...
>
>We can spout rules and regulations and try sound big and tough--but
>it's all a paper tiger.  If MCI wanted to post that ad once an hour
>to every newsgroup, there's practically nothing we could do about
>it. 
>
>...
>
>My guess is that you haven't seen anything yet when it comes to the
>"commercialization" of the net.  And if you don't like it, and
>you also believe that moderated newsgroups are horrors from hell,
>then you have a serious conflict which may be difficult to resolve.
>
>--Lauren--

First of all, I have seen no great increase in "blatant ads" lately,
just a lot of traffic about a few. I disagree strongly with the MCI
ad, but there are several things to consider. First, MCI is not (to my
knowledge) on the net, so they can't post their message every hour,
even if they wanted to. Things aren't that bad yet. And the folks at
the Vet school have promised to take action against the individual
who posted the ad. I think this, along with the high number of messages
posted flaming the ad will probably discourage future similar
postings.

I'm not wild about moderated newsgroups, but I can live with them if
it comes to that. As long as Lauren isn't the moderator. ;-)

Doug Hall
ITT Telecom
Raleigh, NC
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