Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Cayman on the net
Message-ID: <3348@looking.UUCP>
Date: 21 May 89 03:22:26 GMT
References: <2877@cayman.COM> <7345@hoptoad.uucp> <2895@cayman.COM> <7382@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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There are many companies performing tech support over the various nets.
SCO is one of the most obvious examples, and a well liked one, I think.

There never has been any sort of concensus against commercial use of the
net in any of its forms.  Quite the opposite, it's all over the place.

Consider the top ten groups:

  1 65000 rec.humor.funny	- Evil capitalist group  :-)
  2 58000 news.announce.conferences	- you pay to put these in CACM
  3 57000 news.announce.important
  4 51000 alt.sex
  5 50000 comp.sys.ibm.pc	- half the postings are requests for
				  information people need in their work.
  6 49000 misc.jobs.offered	- Help wanted ads are a big industry
  7 45000 comp.sources.unix
  8 43000 news.announce.newusers
  9 41000 comp.sys.mac		- lots of messages for commercial benefit
 10 40000 misc.forsale		- how much more commercial can you get?

 This answers the question well.  Almost all of us regularly use the
 net, either overtly or quietly, for our commercial purposes.  If there
 has been any concensus, it's "No commercial ABuse," not "No commercial use."

 If it benefits the other folks on the net, and not just you, then it's ok.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473