On Tuesday, March 20, 1990 at 12:41:50 PM UTC-8, The Cat in the Hat wrote:
She said that he said that she said that [email protected] (Charlie Lear) said:
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-Now this isn't meant to be inflammatory, but I've only been on the net
-for fifteen months: how did Brad manage to get a newsgroup for himself,
-and why is it allowed to continue when he specifically refuses to carry -anything that hasn't been mailed to himself? Most moderated groups
-carry articles from other groups that are relevant.
Because of the charter of rec.humor.funny, which says that articles that
get submitted are subject to the whim of Brad himself. It was designed
that way, and the people of the net decided to allow it (although not
without a lot of yelling and screaming (surprise, surprise)).
-Its none of my business, but I'm asking anyway - doesn't Brad have
-tie-ins with a couple of linked commercial services? Strikes me as odd -(coming from a Fidonet strictly-amateur upbringing) that the moderator
-of a group might be making bucks out of other people's submissions.
This has been discussed many *many* MANY times before. You're confusing rec.humor.funny's tie-in (well, sorta) to GEnie (however you capitalize it) and ClariNet, whose main purpose is the distribution (if you pay for it)
of a UPI news feed, the NewsBytes service and Newsclip software. Brad makes money off the second, not the first.
But since it's a moderated newsgroup, if you don't want your jokes going to GEnie, just don't send them to him. It's that simple.
Hopefully this article will keep another round of Brad-bashing from occurring.
Not that he doesn't deserve it (that's your opinion, and incidentally, not mine) but like the *.aquaria debate, it's boring.
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therefore you are." -- Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale"
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