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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Brad, Inc. (was: Re: verification of Brad's vote)
Message-ID: <1989Mar27.174515.16598@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Mar20.181533.22112@utzoo.uucp> <7994@chinet.chi.il.us> <13913@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <661@ivucsb.UUCP> <8037@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 89 17:45:15 GMT

In article <8037@chinet.chi.il.us> patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson) writes:
>But I repeat myself, endlessly it seems: So far I have seen no jokes from
>Genie, free or otherwise, come through the gateway to Usenet.

Perhaps because there is no gateway yet?

>Has it not
>occurred to you to wonder why the management at Genie, or whoever will be
>Brad's supervisor there has not been participating in the discussion here?

Perhaps because they have better things to do with their time?  (Seriously.)

>I will accept Brad's argument that 'it is not the jokes I send them, it is
>my organizational skills and labor they are paying for' as soon as I see him
>actually running such a forum and *two way traffic* through the gate...

Then please shut up and let him try it.  He was cautious enough about the
sensibilities of the net to run an opinion survey *in advance*, instead
of just handing Usenet a fait accompli (which is, frankly, what I would
have done)... so now he's being flamed for not having started already!
I suppose some degree of rationality would be too much to ask...

>... Where is some written
>commitment that Genie/Delphi/Compuscrew or *any* of those outfits are willing
>to abandon their copyright on any of their output?

Do you want it notarized, and delivered to you by Federal Express?  If not,
face facts:  you're going to have to take somebody's word for it.  Why
not Brad's?
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