[10115] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Andrews Univ. & C. Thomas
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Barrett)
Tue Feb 8 07:20:45 1994
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 14:17:53 +0200 (SAST)
From: Alan Barrett <barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za>
To: Ed Tully <tully@cscns.com>
Cc: Barry Shein <postman@lists.psi.com>, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9402080244.AA03211@cns.cscns.com>
Ed Tully wrote:
> IMHO, it was the content that everybody objected
> to, not what he did. because what he did is done every day on the net.
What he did was to post a separate copy of an approximately 5 kilobyte
message to more than 1000 newsgroups and mailing lists. (I forget the
exact size of the message of the number of groups and lists.) Such a thing
is most certainly not done every day on the net: While I suspect that
some people might be able to point to 5 or more such incidents over the
past 5 years, I know that I cannot recall so many.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
