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Article #8380Re: Purchasing a Hierarchy
From: Ron Newman
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 1994 21:54
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 1994 21:54
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In article <3265q2$gqc@engnews1.eng.sun.com>, Mary Morris <marym@Sun.COM> wrote: >I came across a web page that states the following: > >"Internet Marketing Inc. has bought the worldwide rights to act as the exclusive >marketing company of the soon to be unveiled market.* hierarchy (market.finance.*, >market.consumer.*, market.internet.* ... you get the picture) of the Usenet area of the >Internet." > >This page can be found at http://venus.mcs.com/~advertiz/html/hear.html > >Can someone enlighten me as to how rights to a newsgroup hierarchy can be purchased? This sounds like the market.* hierarchy that was originally proposed by Robert Raisch of The Internet Company (internet.com). Haven't heard anything about that in a while, and he didn't reply to my e-mail asking about it. Any more information, from internet.com or anyone else, would be welcome here. -- Ron Newman MIT Media Laboratory rnewman@media.mit.edu
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