On Tuesday, March 20, 1990 at 12:41:50 PM UTC-8, The Cat in the Hat wrote:
> She said that he said that she said that cl...@actrix.co.nz (Charlie Lear) said:
> -
> -Now this isn't meant to be inflammatory, but I've only been on the net
> -for fifteen months: how did Brad manage to get a newsgroup for himself,
> -and why is it allowed to continue when he specifically refuses to carry
> -anything that hasn't been mailed to himself? Most moderated groups
> -carry articles from other groups that are relevant.
> Because of the charter of rec.humor.funny, which says that articles that
> get submitted are subject to the whim of Brad himself. It was designed
> that way, and the people of the net decided to allow it (although not
> without a lot of yelling and screaming (surprise, surprise)).
> -Its none of my business, but I'm asking anyway - doesn't Brad have
> -tie-ins with a couple of linked commercial services? Strikes me as odd
> -(coming from a Fidonet strictly-amateur upbringing) that the moderator
> -of a group might be making bucks out of other people's submissions.
> This has been discussed many *many* MANY times before. You're confusing
> rec.humor.funny's tie-in (well, sorta) to GEnie (however you capitalize it)
> and ClariNet, whose main purpose is the distribution (if you pay for it)
> of a UPI news feed, the NewsBytes service and Newsclip software. Brad makes
> money off the second, not the first.
> But since it's a moderated newsgroup, if you don't want your jokes going to
> GEnie, just don't send them to him. It's that simple.
> Hopefully this article will keep another round of Brad-bashing from occurring.
> Not that he doesn't deserve it (that's your opinion, and incidentally, not
> mine) but like the *.aquaria debate, it's boring.
> --
> David Bedno aka da...@sco.COM: Speaking from but not for SCO.
>
> "Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell,
> therefore you are." -- Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale"
This not what we need here, we need unity. UNITY!!!!