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From: greg@bilbo (Greg Wageman)
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Subject: Re: Changes to the monthly postings (for rec.humor.funny)
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Date: 16 Feb 89 23:09:51 GMT
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In article <25732@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>>I am quite reluctant to have Compu$erve (or UPI, or BIX) gaining income by
>>redistributing USENET newsgroups.
>
>I hate to tell you this, but there's been an agreement with Delphi
>going on for over two years. All of the Mac stuff gets gatewayed back
>and forth betwen the Mac forums on Delphi and comp.sys.mac.* (and
>binaries/source as well). It's made the Mac groups stronger by bringing
>in an audience of knowledgable people, including many developers.
>
>So you may think you don't like it -- but it's been going on in some form or
>another for many, many years, and the results as I've seen it have only been
>possible. It definitely hasn't hurt USENET.

Let me see if I've got this straight.  You voluntarily post an article
on the USENET, an anarchic, at-best-loosely-defined cooperative, not
really knowing where and how many times your article will be copied,
stored, read, and retransmitted.

But you reserve the right to restrict distribution??

The answer is simple.  Don't post to USENET.

Or, if you think you are profound enough, *sell* your postings
directly to BIX/Compuserve/Delphi/GEnie/The Source/AP/UPI/Knight-Ridder.

I'm sure USENET can make up for the loss of your volume...

"I send a note onto the Net,
 and where it goes I know not yet.

 Its content hold no great import;
 in byte-count long, in wisdom short.

 Yet staunchly does the net defend
 my right not to Abort, but Send.

 I type it in and press "RETURN";
 The Aether it does fairly burn

 with wit and pith and righteous flames.
 BIX, Compuserve and other names
 
 become the target of my wrath.
 Remove them from the Newsfeed path!

 The fact that galls is wry, indeed:
 They profit by their USENET feed!"

Copyright 1989 Greg Wageman.
 

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