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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!ub4b!inftec.be!mike
- From: mike@inftec.be (Mike Aerts)
- Subject: Re: Illegal Sales from Mark Margolis
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.002935.8839@inftec.be>
- Organization: Information Technologies, Wemmel, Belgium.
- References: <1992Nov3.201402.11724@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <30073@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com> <rlcarr.06t4@animato.network23.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 00:29:35 GMT
- Lines: 74
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- In article <rlcarr.06t4@animato.network23.com> rlcarr@animato.network23.com (Rich Carreiro) writes:
- >In article <30073@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com> ghart@ems.cdc.com (Geoffrey Hart) writes:
- >> |> In article <1d20omINNlqd@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> valhert@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (valhert) writes:
- >> |>Hi,
- >> |>
- >> |>I have use the misc.forsale often and I keep seeing Mark
- >> |>Margolis (fnox@cornell) selling modems and the such.
- >> |>I am sorry, but when a person is selling something new
- >> |>and willing to beat any price... I call that commercial
- >> |>sales!
- >> |>
- [ Stuff deleted ]
- >> The rules for commercial activity on the Internet are not well enforced in
- >> other areas. I think this activity by Margolis, even if it is commercial
- >> in nature, is not worth the time you have spent to try and stop it.
- >
- >Yes, it is hurtful. This Margolis guy is getting free advertising at
- >taxpayer expense. As a taxpayer, I do not appreciate this. Also,
- >commercial stuff going over the NSF backbone is *illegal*.
- >Finally, as a privately run site, I do not appreciate paying for transmission
- >time for blatantly commercial postings. Why can't this Margolis guy play a
- >fair game and advertise properly and legally, hmm?
- >
- >> Go clean up a park or something.
- >
- >Buzz off, schmuck.
- >
- >--
- >Rich Carreiro Home: (401)841-8514
- >rlcarr@animato.network23.com
- >uunet.uu.net!animato!rlcarr
-
- Are you also going to play net-police for :
-
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- 1 52000 1628 56% 1347 55075.7 3% 1.20 3.4% alt.binaries.pictures.misc
- 2 78000 2417 55% 1741 71753.5 10% 0.98 5.0% alt.binaries.pictures.erotica
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- 10 20000 619 51% 3138 8055.0 59% 0.40 1.3% alt.politics.elections
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- IMHO I find the stuff mailed by Mark Margolis more usefull than
- that in some of the top 10 lists for which you also pay as a tax-payer.
-
- This is USENET, it's an anarchy and we have to live with it, there
- is no net-police and I hope there never will be one.
- If I'm not pleased with what happens on USENET in general,
- I just stop my connection.
- No BIG BROTHER judging what is good for me.
-
- Mike.
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