[10116] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Andrews Univ. & C. Thomas
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clay Shirky)
Tue Feb 8 08:12:17 1994
From: Clay Shirky <clays@panix.com>
To: barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za (Alan Barrett)
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 08:09:42 -0500 (EST)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9402081403.K456-0100000@daisy.ee.und.ac.za> from "Alan Barrett" at Feb 8, 94 02:17:53 pm
> 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.
Content is context specific, so it is perfectly true that the people
in comp.sys.mac and rec.arts.book objected to it because of its
content, but not because of what its content was, namely 7th Day
witnessing, but because of what it wasn't, namely appropriate to the
charter of those groups.
Alan Barrett wrote:
> 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.)
The post as we received it was 214 lines long, and the original list of
affected newsgroups was pegged at around 1100 in discussions of this issue
on news.groups, though more recently I have seen a figure of 1400+ bruited
about.
--
Clay Shirky
