Charging the net...

CNEWS MUST LIVE! jfw at ksr.com
Wed May 8 07:38:14 AEST 1991


mathew at mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) writes:
>I think that's fair enough; and I would argue that connecting to Usenet DOES
>constitute solicitation of material, since you must explicitly request from
>your feed site that the material in any given newsgroup be sent to you.

Yet another transatlantic difference.  Over here, it is not uncommon for
feed sites to offer new newsgroups until you ask them to shut you off.
But then again, we don't have the UnKindNET telling us what to do...



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