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From: turner@imagen.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16,net.mail
Subject: Re: abuse of the net
Message-ID: <365@imagen.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-May-86 19:05:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: imagen.365
Posted: Thu May 15 19:05:57 1986
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talk about excessive quoting ! ill try to trim this down
> In article <360@imagen.UUCP>, turner@imagen.UUCP writes:
> > 
> > why not indeed ?
.
.
> > since when is the purpose of the net changed from the free
> > exchange of ideas and information ? i certainly believe that
> > software falls into that catagory. 
> 
> 
> It seems to me that if I pay to transmit your free exchange of
> ideas is ceases to be free.
> 
i (in the form of my company) just paid for your ideas being
transmitted
> You can send whatever you want at your expense, but when you ask
> me to pay for it (even implicity) you give me the right
> to interfer with it.
horse puckey! first who said that the free (read 'uncensored')
exchange of ideas was free (read 'without cost')? it ain't
second, you have a right to censored what you recieve at your
machine but not what passes thru it. the system i am building 
based on email, hence if you are not a newsfeed you bear none of the
costs, if on the other hand you are a newsfeed to others then you
have given your implicit consent to bear the costs of a newsfeed.
> 
> I remove an average of 2 full source copies of rogue or hack
> from the mail queues on seismo each week.
> 
(sarcastic comment about net.police deleted (-:) {by
net.police.police ?}
.
.
> 
> Is there really an extremely high correlation between the belief in the
> obligation of free exchange and 1/(number of users your computer supports)
> or am I overly sensitive.
> 
either you're from Stanford and don't know english or UC Berkeley and
don't know math, but you mean function not correlation 
(the original joke was MIT and Harvard and has lost alot in the
translation)
> ---rick


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