From: mike@inftec.be (Mike Aerts)
Subject: Re: Illegal Sales from Mark Margolis
Organization: Information Technologies, Wemmel, Belgium.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 00:29:35 GMT

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.
>
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>rlcarr@animato.network23.com
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Are you also going to play net-police for : 

TOP 10 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST
A companion posting explains the statistics and the algorithms that produced
them.

        +-- Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide.
        |     +-- Actual number of readers in sampled population
        |     |     +-- Propagation: how many sites receive this group at all
        |     |     |      +-- Recent traffic (messages per month)
        |     |     |      |      +-- Recent traffic (kilobytes per month)
        |     |     |      |      |      +-- Crossposting percentage
        |     |     |      |      |      |    +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/rdr
        |     |     |      |      |      |    |      +-- Share: % of newsrders
        |     |     |      |      |      |    |      |   who read this group.
        V     V     V      V      V      V    V      V
   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 
   3  24000   756   55%   408 18085.6     3%  0.80   1.6%  alt.binaries.sounds.misc 
   4  12000   381   67%   909  5923.1    27%  0.64   0.8%  misc.activism.progressive 
   5  27000   847   70%  4603 10992.3    25%  0.55   1.8%  talk.abortion 
   6  15000   471   77%   151  5199.8     1%  0.51   1.0%  comp.binaries.apple2 
   7   2000    63   17%  2512  2847.2     0%  0.47   0.1%  k12.chat.senior 
   8  19000   604   68%  3381  6638.4     0%  0.46   1.3%  rec.sport.football.college 
   9  27000   829   74%  3787  7737.9     0%  0.41   1.7%  rec.arts.tv.soaps 
  10  20000   619   51%  3138  8055.0    59%  0.40   1.3%  alt.politics.elections 

  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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