Re: Topica-Dot-Com Open For Business

[murr rhame]

On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Victor A. Wagner, Jr. wrote:

> [vawjr] It's clear from your "certainly" that you feel strongly
> about this (as apparently do many).  It is why I asked my original
> question: "Why?"

I and several others stated our reasons.  We don't want others to
profit from our efforts and our subscribers' efforts.  Those who
volunteer to produce and maintain the content, are entitled to decide
how their content will be used.

> [vawjr] I support being free from unwanted influences also.  I
> note that you specifically denote "commercial".  Is there some
> reason that their influences are worse than any others?

There are many other potential negative outside influences which could
have a negative impact on a mailing list.  In the interest of clarity,
I choose to address only the topic at hand.  Do you really want to
tackle every potential unwanted influence?


- murr -