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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!mama!greyham
- From: greyham@research.canon.oz.au (Graham Stoney)
- Subject: Re: Prices on c.s.n.announce
- Message-ID: <Btxorx.3tL@research.canon.oz.au>
- Sender: news@research.canon.oz.au
- Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia
- References: <1992Aug28.193432.14085@utstat.uucp> <1992Aug28.201350.14991@cco.caltech.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 04:35:57 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu (Ernest Prabhakar) writes:
- >There are lots of reasons, most of them historical, for why prices were
- >forbidden from being on USENET.
-
- Craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap!
- (Gee, that felt good!).
-
- It's not _prices_ that's forbidden, it's _advertising_. Take the price off an
- advertisement, and what have you got?. Yes!. You've still got an advertisement.
- Either the prices should stay, or the advertisements should go: this is what
- the debate should be about, and historically the answer is that the
- advertisements should go. Keeping the advertisements but X'ing out the prices
- is bad regadless of whether you want the ads or not: everyone loses!
-
- Graham
- >been
- --
- Graham Stoney. Ph: +61-2-805-2909. Totally unrelated message follows:
- Since 1900, there are 23 known cases of innocent people being put to death in
- the USA; but since the execution ends any effort to investigate possible
- misscarriages of justice, the real figure is certainly much higher.
-