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- From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Ethics, publishing and the net
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 18:36:02 GMT
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- References: <73948@apple.Apple.COM> <1992Nov3.235232.7506@netcom.com> <1992Nov11.004618.29074@ncsu.edu> <1992Nov15.231107.21506@netcom.com>
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- In <1992Nov15.231107.21506@netcom.com> Tom Maddox writes
- |In article <1992Nov11.004618.29074@ncsu.edu> echyatt@eos.ncsu.edu (EDWARD CRAIG HYATT) writes:
- |
- |>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.
- . . .
- | However, if people find such announcements objectionable,
- |they should say so; and if not, they should say that. . . .
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- Definitely not (objectionable, that is). Even putting aside the fact
- that people legitimately post product announcements (as distinct from
- advertisements) on technical newsgroups, we* consider this sort of
- posting both interesting and relevant.
-
- /JBL
-
- *Speaking strictly for myself and me, of course.
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