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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: The Rape of Usenet (an alternative view)
Message-ID: <1989Dec21.174847.20010@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 89 17:48:47 GMT
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In article <1989Dec21.045834.6375@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry
Spencer) writes:
>In case you haven't heard, there are already quite a number of sites
>on the net that charge for connect time (some of which is spent reading
>news).  For example, many university sites charge for connect time.
>Nor is it all non-profit; there are a number of for-profit public-access
>systems on the net.

  Do me a favor, Henry, and don't patronize me.  I've been around the
net long enough to know that there are pay sites on it.

  The original posting about this whole issue objected to the fact
that there is no reverse gatewaying from GEnie to Usenet, and
therefore GEnie is gething something from the Usenet without giving
anything back.  Every posting of mine since then has stressed that as
the main reason for my ojection to what GEnie is doing.

  I therefore fail to understand why people can be so blind as to
ignore that aspect of my arguments, and repeatedly tell me how wrong I
must be since there are already sites that charge for news.

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P.S. Even if there are already sites that charge for people to read
     news and don't allow them to post news, that doesn't make it
     right.  That just makes it the status quo.