Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sphinx.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (JB) Newsgroups: net.news,net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Cleaning up net.sources.mac Message-ID: <1206@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 11:44:33 EDT Article-I.D.: sphinx.1206 Posted: Fri Oct 18 11:44:33 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Oct-85 08:24:41 EDT Organization: Wits' End Lines: 32 Xref: watmath net.news:4087 net.micro.mac:3035 [This line intentionally left blank] From: fair@ucbarpa.BERKELEY.EDU (Erik E. &), Message-ID: <10687@ucbvax.ARPA>: >Use of the USENET for distribution of shareware constitutes `use of the >network for personal gain' >[...] > Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucbarpa.BERKELEY.EDU Either a shareware program is posted by the author or it's posted by someone else. If it's posted by the author then it's not for personal gain, it's for professional gain. Open position postings to net.jobs are for professional gain, and many sites are willing to allow that, even though they have much more to lose. And if shareware is posted by anyone but the author, then there's no gain whatsoever to anyone but the readers of the newsgroup. What is this whining about? Why do sites carry net.sources.* if not to provide their users with access to programs that they might not other- wise have access to? So what if a programmer gets a few bucks in the mail every now and then? That has absolutely nothing to do with providing access for users. Sites have *not a thing* more to lose by providing shareware than they do by providing public domain programs. And users have a lot to gain. Which is the point of the net in the first place. -- --JB (Beth Christy, U. of Chicago, ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth) "What if the after-effect of the terrible bomb is unusual beyond belief? Wouldn't you rather the whole population had listened to somebody like the old Indian chief?" (The Roches)