[758] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
operators are standing by...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Wed May 29 16:58:37 1991
Date: Wed, 29 May 91 16:40:20 -0400
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: baer@jessica.stanford.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: baer@jessica.stanford.edu's message of Wed, 29 May 91 13:04:53 -0700 <9105292004.AA07026@jessica.stanford.edu>
>> ad.workstations
>>
>> would take workstation adverts. The point is that mailing an ad anywhere
>> else would be a violation, so my mailbox is protected, but if I care about
>> workstation information, I know where to look.
>>
>> Craig
>>
>
>What he said!
>
>--Paul Baer
This already exists under USENET, the comp.biz.* hierarchy. I suppose
it could be extended.
Interestingly, within USENET there seems to be very little sentiment
for the "no commercial use" (go ahead, bring it up on news.admin and
see where you get, I did) policies. Mostly people just don't want to
be plagued with junk mail, but don't seem to want blanket policies
either.
The (old) cries of "but we're not allowed to receive this over the
nets we're hooked up to" tend to be answered with "too bad" these days
(that is, a real resistance to least-common-denominator policies.)
-Barry Shein
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