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- From: dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,misc.forsale,misc.forsale.computers
- Subject: Re: Illegal Sales from Mark Margolis
- Summary: Ostrich syndrome
- Message-ID: <1771@frackit.UUCP>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 15:05:31 GMT
- References: <1d20omINNlqd@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> <BxEpGy.7KH@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Followup-To: misc.forsale
- Organization: Data Factory Services, Harrisburg, Pa.
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- In article <BxEpGy.7KH@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke) writes:
- > In article <1d20omINNlqd@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> valhert@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (valhert) writes:
- > >
- > >I always believe that the rule was not to have commerrcial
- > >sales on the usenet. How can we prevent this illegal
- > >activity from continuing? This guy is using the guise of
- > >a college student to legitatize this sales.
- >
- > Why bother? If he offers good equipment at a reasonable price, then his
- > posts are most certainly welcome! If you don't like it, you can always
- > killfile him...
-
- .....forgetting, of course, that Usenet is also transported over
- networks that expressly forbid commercial traffic.
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- With this in mind, hiding your head in the killfile sand pile won't do
- much good if the network(s) in question refuse to transport Usenet.
-
- You see, there IS a reason why commercial postings are frowned upon in
- anything but the biz.* hierarchy.
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