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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!john
- From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
- Subject: Re: The "commercial use of net" problem -- irrelevant?
- Message-ID: <Bxs4K6.28B@news.iastate.edu>
- Keywords: Internet, commercial usage
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1dsr2aINNono@almaak.usc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:45:41 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
- }I'm used to seeing "commercial use of the net" being frowned upon. ...
- }Notice:
- }1. Services like Clarinet are explicitly commercial ...
- }2. ...bookstores operating on the net...advertise on misc.books.technical
- }3. Companies routinely post press releases and the like on newsgroups. ...
- }4. small-time entrepreneurs who hawk homemade PCs ... misc.forsale groups.
- }5. ...use email for "commercial" applications...business correspondence...
- }6. Lots of profit making companies sell net access in various shapes...
- }7. Misc.jobs.offered and misc.jobs.wanted are routes for companies to...
- }I see all the above "commercial uses of the net" as being commonplace,
- }and I don't think they detract from the utility of the network.
- }What do you think?
-
- I think we are starting down the slippery slope -- I hope the day never comes
- when I have to wade through a bunch of adverts in my news or e-mail to get to
- the people I want to talk to.
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- You don't have to look around very far to see what level this could sink to.
-
- SNail mail -- clogged with bulk rate crap.
- Commercial TV -- 5 minutes of commercials every 15 minutes.
- Telephone -- most households with answering machines to screen tele-scum.
-
- John
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