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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!dbell
- From: dbell@cup.portal.com (David J Bell)
- Newsgroups: comp.misc
- Subject: Re: The "commercial use of net" problem -- irrelevant?
- Message-ID: <69622@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 12:53:58 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: world
- References: <1dsr2aINNono@almaak.usc.edu> <Bxs4K6.28B@news.iastate.edu>
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- >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.
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- > 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.
- >
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- I would add:
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- Prodigy -- the ultimate (I hope!!) example
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- Dave
- dbell@cup.portal.com
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- >John
- >--
- >John Hascall ``An ill-chosen word is the fool's messenger.''
- >Systems Software Engineer
- >Project Vincent
- >Iowa State University Computation Center + Ames, IA 50011 + 515/294-9551
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