Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!bstempleton
From: bstempleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Get shareware off the network
Keywords: You want to make money off of me?  Pay me rent!
Message-ID: <34557@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 90 06:00:29 GMT
References: <1287@polari.UUCP>
Reply-To: bstempleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Brad Templeton)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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People, USENET is not unsolicited in any manner.  It's a private club.
You can only join it with the permission of another member.  You can
only join it and subscribe to its data flows through your own
explicit acts.  It bears no resemblance to a book that the post office
leaves on your doorstep.

Unmoderated groups are private clubs.  Moderated groups are more -- they
are edited publications, available at no charge to those who explicitly
subscribe.   Nobody gets a moderated group without doing something to get
it, and except at perhaps some very few sites, no user gets a group without
subscribing to it.

Moderators decide what should go in their publication, based on what they
think the readers wish to see.

A moderator of a source/binary group makes a decision as to whether the
subscribers want to see shareware.

Some moderators on USENET have decided yes, some have decided no.

Some of us agree with the YES decision, some agree with the NO.

But if you subscribe to a group where the moderator thought yes, don't
complain about what you subscribed to.  Unsubscribe.

USENET is not unsolicited.  You're the one who joined it.  Start your own
group or replace the moderator if you don't like it.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont. (519) 884-7473