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- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Path: sparky!uunet!looking!brad
- From: brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton)
- Subject: Re: WELL anonymity policy
- Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp.
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:56:28 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.215628.735@clarinet.com>
- References: <1gpee1INN9l7@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <1gpee1INN9l7@agate.berkeley.edu> spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope) writes:
- >Now, it's possible I don't have the entire story straight,
- >but if the above is true it strikes me as somewhat
- >bogus. I mean, it would appear that not all users are
- >provided with the same level of service, based on... what?
- >Somebody's arbitrary decision. Is it reasonable for
- >a professional access service to do this? I have some
- >doubts.
-
- I have some bad news for you. If you don't like this, you're in trouble.
- It's a trivial affair compared to what really goes on.
-
- All the big online services give *free* accounts to famous people -- not
- just some minor perk like anonymity. Most commonly they give free
- accounts in special areas -- for example, if you're a famous Science Fiction
- Writer, you can get free access to the SF areas on some online services.
- Sometimes they give free access to the whole system as an incentive to
- have a worthwhile person on the system, where worthwhile is in their
- subjective judgement.
-
- And I see nothing wrong with this, nor can I imagine why you see anything
- wrong with the Well's practice.
- --
- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Sunnyvale, CA 408/296-0366
-