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From article <1992Oct10.155553.311@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, by ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant):
> 
> So the posting of commercial advertising over British, Dutch, Italian,
> Swedish and Australian academic networks (and probably everyone else's
> as well) is an "internal American affair"?

Not at all.  The posting of this "noise" to a *US* network _is_ an
internal American affair.  It may be rude, impolite, offensive, and
a whole host of other adjectives.  But is *is* internal to us.

As for these messages appearing on "foreign" (relative to the USA)
networks, well...  *you* folks voluntarily connected to our
network(s).  That places _some_ responsibility for appropriateness 
of traffic on you.

[Question:  Has the sum total of traffic in these newsgroups reached the
volume of the original e-mail postings everyone is yammering about yet?]
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