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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: No Sale
Message-ID: <8804280142.aa01190@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>
Date: 28 Apr 88 06:27:45 GMT
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>A new company called AEU is selling all electronical supplies/equipment

Sorry Jesse; with all the new people that sign onto newslists this message
has to be repeated from time to time, but YOU CANNOT SELL MERCHANDISE
on networks paid for by taxpayers (NOT for profit).  Comp.sys.apple
is distributed on arpa/mil (Department of Defense -- not nice people to
have annoyed with you) and bitnet (colleges, universities, and other not
for profit research organizations).

The network management has been tolerant, even understanding about folks
learning the rules, and I doubt there's much concern about the occasional
private individual selling off bits and pieces of old equipment a la
garage sale, but they'll draw the line at outright merchandising, and the
newsgroup could disappear.  It also isn't legal for most of us to even
reply by email to your offer (I gather many if not most USENET sites are
not thus restricted; if commercialism persists in the newsgroups though,
what would happen is USENET would be cut off from the rest of us).

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