Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!xanth!ames!ucsd!orion.cf.uci.edu!uci-ics!nagel@blanche.ics.uci.edu From: nagel@blanche.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin Subject: Re: Results of survey on expansion of rec.humor.funny to other networks Message-ID: <9628@paris.ics.uci.edu> Date: 18 Mar 89 02:22:55 GMT References: <2914@looking.UUCP> <1581@etive.ed.ac.uk> <1989Mar17.121620.13318@ateng.ateng.com> Sender: news@paris.ics.uci.edu Reply-To: nagel@blanche.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) Followup-To: news.groups Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS Lines: 17 In-reply-to: chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) Xref: utzoo news.groups:8121 news.admin:5153 In article <1989Mar17.121620.13318@ateng.ateng.com>, chip@ateng (Chip Salzenberg) writes: | |Karl misses an important point here. The sale of Usenet material by its |moderator is a concern of mine, not because I read or post to r.h.f, but |because I'm a news administrator on a system that carries it. (For now, |anyway.) Cross-posting the survey request to news.admin would have been |appropriate. Chip misses an important point here. The moderator is not selling Usenet material to anyone. He is selling his moderation. If GEnie is stupid enough to want to pay for what it could just take for free, then they can do that. Mark Nagel @ UC Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science +----------------------------------------+ ARPA: nagel@ics.uci.edu | radiation: smog with an attitude | UUCP: ucbvax!ucivax!nagel | |