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From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16,net.mail
Subject: Re: abuse of the net
Message-ID: <2210@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Sun, 11-May-86 13:50:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 11 13:50:00 1986
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References: <306@sdcarl.UUCP> <779@hoptoad.uucp> <360@imagen.UUCP>
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Summary: free exchange often isn't

In article <360@imagen.UUCP>, turner@imagen.UUCP writes:
> 
> why not indeed ? i am in the process of implementing the recently
> posted automatic retrival program for mod.sources and i am
> considering included as much of the atari16 sources as i can get my
> hands on. 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.

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.

I remove an average of 2 full source copies of rogue or hack
from the mail queues on seismo each week.

It takes about $45 worth of phone time to transfer that
free exchange of information. Federal Express and a mag tape would
only be about $40, yet how many people ever think about it. It cost
them nothing to mail it electronically (except for the non-North Americans).

I really wish the US had some sort of recharging scheme like they
do in Europe.

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.

---rick