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From: linimon@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Mark Linimon)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Protection Against Abuse of Messages
Message-ID: <7131@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 13 Feb 89 00:29:47 GMT
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Patrick A. Townson writes:
> I'd have to say stay clear of feeding commercial networks unless and until
> we, meaning the Usenet community, have full control of the output, and the
> terms are to our liking.

I'd have to say stay clear of feeding commercial networks, PERIOD.  I've
already had to fend off inquiries from more than one headhunter who wants to
tie in their own bulletin board networks; people who (believe me) have not the
_least_ interest in the Spirit of Usenet.  We already cross
the "commerical" line, I believe, in misc.jobs.offered (headhunters) and
various replies of the form "my firm can do that" all too often.  I'd like
to see less of that, not more.  With interconnects to commercial networks
I can't see how there could be less of it.

Mark Linimon
killer!nominil!linimon
disclaimer: speaking just for myself (you think I work at this? :-)