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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Get shareware off the network
Keywords: You want to make money off of me?  Pay the rent!
Message-ID: <14475@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 90 19:59:10 GMT
References: <1287@polari.UUCP> <34557@watmath.waterloo.edu> <4349@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <206@swamps.UUCP>
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val@swamps.UUCP (Val Christian) writes:

|True, this was an explicit act, similar to getting an account on a UNIX
|system, which also allows mail to reach you. HOWEVER, in order to get
|netnews, you also have to type "rn" or "readnews", and then subscribe
|to the specific groups you want to read. THAT is like subscribing to
|a paper or a magazine, and THAT'S why netnews is NOT unsolicited.

What a silly argument.
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***  Sean Casey          sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean
***  "Well, heck's farr, Jim, it gives mah computer sumthin' to do when
***  Ah'm out brandin' capacitors." -DM