Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom From: john@wash.demon.co.uk (John Washington) Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!decwrl!decwrl!pacbell.com!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!demon!wash.demon.co.uk!john Subject: Re: Commercialism on Internet References: Organization: - Reply-To: john@wash.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Simple NEWS 2.0 (ka9q DIS 1.24) Lines: 27 Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 23:43:48 +0000 Message-ID: <763083828snz@wash.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk In article kimes@cbnewsc.cb.att.com writes: >From article , by (Constantine J Tsikos): >>> >> 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!!!! > >I hope not. I find sources for things (CD-ROM's are just one) on the net >that I might not be able to find anywhere else. But presumably you would have no objection to splitting this group into (say) alt.cd-rom.for-sale.commercial, a.c.for-sale.private, a.c.wanted, ... a.c.games, ... a.c.misc? If you like *everything* in this group, I imagine you can simply select all the new groups. Meanwhile, for the rest of us... How do we get this off the ground? Do we have to go through all the bureaucracy needed for non-alt.* groups, or can somebody just ask the guy who created alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk or alt.romance.chat.indiana.barf.barf.barf to work some magic for us? Or did people actually vote for such groups? -- John Washington