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From: Graham Stoney
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 04:35

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ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu (Ernest Prabhakar) writes:
>There are lots of reasons, most of them historical, for why prices were  
>forbidden from being on USENET.

Craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap!
(Gee, that felt good!).

It's not _prices_ that's forbidden, it's _advertising_. Take the price off an
advertisement, and what have you got?. Yes!. You've still got an advertisement.
Either the prices should stay, or the advertisements should go: this is what
the debate should be about, and historically the answer is that the
advertisements should go. Keeping the advertisements but X'ing out the prices
is bad regadless of whether you want the ads or not: everyone loses!

Graham
>been
-- 
Graham Stoney. Ph: +61-2-805-2909.         Totally unrelated message follows:
Since 1900, there are 23 known cases of innocent people being put to death in
the USA; but since the execution ends any effort to investigate possible
misscarriages of justice, the real figure is certainly much higher.

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