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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: The Rape of Usenet (an alternative view)
Message-ID: <1989Dec21.233618.4458@world.std.com>
Date: 21 Dec 89 23:36:18 GMT
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Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
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In-Reply-To: jik@athena.mit.edu's message of 21 Dec 89 02:40:40 GMT


From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
>  It is irrelevant what the specific charges are for.  The fact is
>that if people are reading the postings that are gatewayed to GEnie,
>then GEnie is making money off of them, and GEnie got them for free
>(except for transportation costs; by "free" I mean they didn't pay the
>people who wrote them), and GEnie is not in any way giving the people
>who wrote the original messages part of the profit they are making.

I strongly suggest MIT close their libraries immediately.

I'd bet at least a few things I've written are in there and I've never
seen one nickel of the tuition or research money they've been charging
for access to my stuff, or anyone else's for that matter. In fact,
they won't even let me read *my own stuff* in their libraries unless I
pay them money! Amazing, right? Wrong.

In fact, I can't read *this* message on their machines because I am
not paying tuition there or doing work for them to earn access!

Face it, your position is utterly bankrupt. Give it up.
-- 
        -Barry Shein

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