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From: tmanos@aocgl.COM (Theodore W. Manos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,news.admin
Subject: Re: Can something be done about 770K waste of time postings...
Message-ID: <20.UUL1.3#935@aocgl.COM>
Date: 30 Apr 88 04:24:02 GMT
References: <5041@nsc.nsc.com>
Organization: Alpha Omega Consulting Group, LTD,  Roselle, IL
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In article <5041@nsc.nsc.com> ken@nsc.nsc.com ({JOAT}) write:
> in article <1574@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) says:
>  Hey, Brad. Lighten up. I liked the posting, the person who posted it
> applogized for not saying what it was already, so quiet nagging.
>  Pcplus was a demo program also, and I hope others will disregard your
> bitching and post other demo programs to the net.

Hey Ken, lighten up.  If you liked the ADVERTISEMENT so much, then *YOU* pay
for it!  I sure as hell don't want to.  And I imagine that most of the other
site admins feel the same way about it.  I'll be damned if *I* am going to pay
to do somebody elses advertising for them!  And that is *all* that a demo
program is - advertisement.  PCPlus-TD included (which I personally thought
was garbage anyhow, but that's another matter entirely).  And, an apology,
while being a *step* in the right direction, will hardly function as adequate
total compensation to those companies or people (as in my case) on the net
whose money and time have been squandered by such a thoughtless action.  (Yes,
*I* pay to cost for USENET here, equipment, connection charges, everything,
out of *MY* pocket.  However, companies have the same right to complain about
it too.)

So, since you enjoyed that advertisement so much, can we site admins expect a
check from you for $5,800.00 to the UUCP Mapping Project soon?

I'd like to propose that the USENET go back to it's more original function,
which was *NOT* to provide advertisement free of charge to certain companies
or persons who are nothing other than leeches.  I'd like to see the net allow
*only* Public Domain and Freeware software to be distributed over it.  If
software is to be distributed over the net, free of charge to those who
distribute/author it, then it should be both fully functional and completely
free of usage charges to anyone who gets it from the net.  Anything else is a
perversion of the function of USENET.  There are more than sufficient numbers
of BBS systems available to those who desire to obtain Shareware, Crippleware,
or "User supported software" products.  If a BBS Sysop (of which I am one)
decides to allow such products on their board (which I do), then that is their
choice - on an *individual* basis - to "fund" uncompensated advertisement for
others.  The distribution of items via USENET does *not* allow such individual
choices to be made by those who will end up paying for it - they get the free
stuff mixed together with the "rippoffware", or they get nothing at all.

-Ted
Ted Manos   tmanos@aocgl.{COM,UUCP,UU.NET}  or ...!{uunet,mcdchg}!aocgl!tmanos