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- From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
- Subject: Re: Advertising on Net: how can we stop it?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.064822.28475@pegasus.com>
- Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu
- References: <1992Dec22.102603.16884@lth.se>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 06:48:22 GMT
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- bengtl@maths.lth.se (Bengt Larsson) writes:
- >tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan) writes:
- >
- >>You see we just want free-flowing and unrestricted information and if
- >>that is somebody explaining how clever he is because he pirated some
- >>PC game or the company who's came he stole announcing the new low price
- >>we believe they deserve equal time.
- >
- >This stuff is about categorizing information, not restricting it.
-
- Thank you for repeating the words of all those who favor restrictions
- on free speech... "categorizing" what an interesting euphemism.
-
- When is the last time you explained to somebody in one of the comp.
- newsgroups that discussions of software piracy belong in the
- "pir" hierarchy so that everybody who doesn't want to read it won't
- have to pay for it ?
-
- tom
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