Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!jhunix!doug
From: doug@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Douglas W O'neal)
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: <4349@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 27 Feb 90 17:18:53 GMT
References: <1287@polari.UUCP> <34557@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: doug@jhuvms.bitnet (Douglas W O'neal)
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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In article <34557@watmath.waterloo.edu> bstempleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Brad Templeton) writes:
->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.
Funny, I seem to remember going out and *buying* a mailbox and erecting it
according to post office regulations.  Does that mean that my mail is no
longer unsolicited and people can now send me things through the US mails
and demand payment?  Putting up the mailbox was certainly an explicit act
to allow the mail to reach me.
-- 
Doug O'Neal                  Distributed Systems Programmer
Homewood Academic Computing  doug@jhuvms.bitnet, doug@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu
Johns Hopkins University     mimsy!aplcen!jhunix!doug