Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!decwrl!hookup!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!news.funet.fi!ngw!news.funet.fi!not-for-mail From: "Robert H. Tullman" Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Commercialism Date: 26 Feb 1994 00:14:56 +0200 Organization: FUNET-NGW Lines: 36 Sender: daemon@news.funet.fi Distribution: alt Message-ID: <93222252204991/172726@HANV02> Reply-To: tullman_r@A1.HANV02.SANDOZ.COM NNTP-Posting-Host: news.funet.fi Return-Path: <@UCCVMA.UCOP.EDU:a1.hanv02.sandoz.com!tullman_r@SANDOZ.COM> Msg-Class: ALL-IN-1 IOS Server for VMS V3.0 PBL123A (US) ENGLISH 21-MAR-1992 Comments: To: cdrom-l@uccvma.sandoz.com To: CDROM-L Redistribution tsikos@scr.siemens.com said : >What do we really have to do to get COMMERCIALS like these off Internet ? >Why do my tax dollars have to subsidize Mr. Jensen's free advertisements ? >I guess if we all scream loud enough we may eventually have >COMMERCIAL-FREE Internet!!!! >Constantine J. Tsikos This issue has been hashed over megatimes in this newsgroup, and apologies in advance, I have to waste a little bandwidth on my $0.02 worth... 1. This is an alt. group making it fairly anarchic 2. Many of of appreciate being made aware of CD vendors here. By popular demand, most of these responsible parties have confined their posts to catalog information (how to get one) rather than the catalogs themselves.. a fair negotiated settlement IMHO. 3. No matter how loud you scream, the commercial free internet will be gone once the phone/CATV companies get their hands on it..and we will long for the days when all the fine information about hardware and software we couldnt care less about was punctuated by a few vendors (and of course the posts with information dear to us ) 4. I notice that you, (like myself) are coming to us live from a .com domain. Our company dollars in addition to our tax dollars are fundin g access. I wholeheartedly agree that encroaching commercialism isnt a good thing, but I dont believe that ads in an alt group geared toward specific products is a bad thing. 5. ...just dont get me started on the folks who discard the little informatio n sheet the LISTSERV sends you telling how to unsubscribe and bother me with their posts to the list...I find that more of a pain than the ads...