Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!mica.berkeley.edu!wisner From: wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Live News & Professional Electronic Publications in USENET Format Summary: flame from a pinhead Message-ID: Date: 11 Jun 89 19:19:44 GMT References: <3492@looking.on.ca> <4494@ficc.uu.net> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Amnesia International Lines: 19 In-reply-to: peter@ficc.uu.net's message of 11 Jun 89 14:49:54 GMT ClariNet is a BUSINESS VENTURE. Its ONLY similarity to USENET is that it uses the SAME SOFTWARE. Do we UNDERSTAND yet? Peter da Silva goes on for a bit about how unenforcable Brad's policies are and how Brad is setting himself up to play net.policeman. If anything, Brad's setting himself up to play clarinet.policeman. Which is fine. Because ClariNet is a BUSINESS VENTURE. Subscribers to ClariNet will probably have to sign CONTRACTS. If the contract is WORDED well, it will be ILLEGAL for subscribers to pass their FEED on to OTHERS. I have no reason to BELIEVE that the contract will not be WORDED well. Do we UNDERSTAND yet? Put simply, a ClariNet subscriber that passes his ClariNet feed on is breaking the law. Perhaps, Mr da Silva, your jaundiced world view won't permit you to believe that there are people that would choose to abide by the law, and the ClariNet contract, but we do exist. w