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- From: tmaddox@netcom.com (Tom Maddox)
- Subject: Re: Ethics, publishing and the net
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.231107.21506@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <73948@apple.Apple.COM> <1992Nov3.235232.7506@netcom.com> <1992Nov11.004618.29074@ncsu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 23:11:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.004618.29074@ncsu.edu> echyatt@eos.ncsu.edu (EDWARD CRAIG HYATT) writes:
-
- [I write]:
-
- >I am using this group to announce recently published work.
-
- [He writes]:
-
- >I'm disturbed by this new trend of announcing new publications.
-
- >This amounts a commercial use of the Internet, which is strictly forbidden.
-
- Maybe yes, maybe no. At the time I posted, I felt qualms about
- doing so, but I thought about my own responses to seeing others' similar
- announcements and decided to go ahead with it.
-
- What motivated me (and I suspect motivates most others) was not a
- wish to bend the net to my need to turn a profit but rather was pride.
-
- >If this kind of thing gets started, the place will become cluttered
- >with advertisements. I'm not the net police or anything, but I
- >don't like it....
-
- Fair enough. I'm not concerned much, by the way, with the
- sacrosanct "commercial use of the Internet"--which seems to me a *very*
- fuzzy notion--but with the wishes of those in the newsgroup. (To briefly
- address the fuzziness of the idea, consider that one of the publications
- I mentioned is produced by a professional organization which I believe has
- non-profit status; certainly, I received no payment for what I wrote for
- them, nor will I. Is announcing this publication in any sense
- "commercial"?)
-
- However, if people find such announcements objectionable,
- they should say so; and if not, they should say that. I remain interested
- to hear about what others are publishing and do not begrudge them the
- opportunity to say so in even reasonably appropriate newsgroups;
- I am also willing to concede that I may be blinded by self-interest and
- so unable to see that such actions should not occur.
-
- --
- Tom Maddox
- tmaddox@netcom.com
- "The Reptoids eat humans like we eat chickens."
- Alex Alexander
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