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- From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
- Subject: Re: The "commercial use of net" problem -- irrelevant?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.100601.28583@pegasus.com>
- Keywords: Internet, commercial usage
- Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu
- References: <Bxs4K6.28B@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 10:06:01 GMT
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- john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
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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... I'll warn you that I'm in general agreement with the proponents of
- Commercialization = Irrelevant but I thought I'd note your characterizations
- as largely negative.
-
- Has your mail taken longer than normal or something... I drop letters into
- mailboxes (even in foreign countries) and they end up at the proper place
- in the U.S. in a matter of days.
-
- Commercial TV... I get to laugh at Letterman and listen to Ted Koppel on
- Nightline and I don't pay anybody for it. They don't put 5 minutes of ads
- every 15 minutes here however, maybe I'd find that annoying but I think I
- could live with it (or turn the channel to PBS).
-
- And the telephone ? You find that annoying too ?
-
- Have a nice day... I almost always do.
-
- tom
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