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Article #8388Re: Purchasing a Hierarchy (Not!)
From: Jerry N. Alexandratos
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1994 16:13
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1994 16:13
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In article <ming.776385237@interaccess> you write: >barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes: > >>In article <3265q2$gqc@engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM>, >>Mary Morris <marym@Sun.COM> wrote: >>>Can someone enlighten me as to how rights to a newsgroup hierarchy can be >>>purchased? > >>They can't. They're wrong. >>Usenet is not for sale, since nobody owns it. > >Hmmm... the same goes for the internet, yet CIX is selling it just >as well. > >Ming That is like selling the moon. One can sell access to it, but not the entire item. (Until a really big tugboat is designed to move it...) Telling someone they're "selling" one or the other is a marketing lie, err, ploy, I mean hyperbole. jna
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