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From: mathieu@ists.ists.ca (Pierre Mathieu)
Newsgroups: ont.events,ont.general,can.general,can.politics
Subject: Re: Leonard Peltier P.O.W.
Summary: To post or not to post...
Message-ID: <351@ists.ists.ca>
Date: 25 Jan 89 15:40:38 GMT
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In article <1840@sparkles.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, dan@sparkles.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Dan Trottier) writes:
> In article <568@yunccn.UUCP> john@yunccn.UUCP (John Hummel) writes:
> >Keywords: Justice Sovereignty Native People
> 
> Regardless of good intentions the Usenet is not a place where on should
> be canvasing for donations. 
> 
> (I'm sorry for posting this but every once in a while it seems people 
>  need to be reminded that canvasing for personal causes is not a
>  proper use of the net.)
> 
> Perhaps from your received funds you can pay us for the disk space and 
> phone cost used for your article.
> 

Although I will admit that this article should probably not have been
crossposted so heavily and perhaps should have been shorter, I do not
agree that the net is not the place for such items. I for one was very
interested in learning about this man and I don't believe that I would
have ever known about this if not for this posting. I find this sort of
thing far more useful than a discussion on how many inconspicuous 
numbers one can find on our paper currency for instance. :-)
	It was perhaps not very wise to ask for contributions on the
net but I think that deleting the article for this reason is a rather
draconian measure. After all, if this rule of thumb starts applying,
should not "FOR SALE" and "FOR RENT" articles also be banned from the
net? Are these not also personal causes? Or should people start paying
for posting? (***shiver*** :-))

Regards,

Pierre Mathieu                                 mathieu@ists.yorku.ca
Center for Research in Exp. Space Science
"Avast, swabs!"