Charging the net...

[Ian G Batten]

In article <3460 at ksr.com> jfw at ksr.com (CNEWS MUST LIVE!) writes:
> mathew at mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) writes:
> >I think that's fair enough; and I would argue that connecting to Usenet DOES
> >constitute solicitation of material, since you must explicitly request from
> >your feed site that the material in any given newsgroup be sent to you.
> 
> Yet another transatlantic difference.  Over here, it is not uncommon for
> feed sites to offer new newsgroups until you ask them to shut you off.
> But then again, we don't have the UnKindNET telling us what to do...


Rubbish.  If you have a feed which contains !whatever for the groups you
DON'T want, then you will get new groups; if you have a feed which just
lists the groups you want, you won't.  Simple.  No transatlantic
differences.  Nothing whatsoever to do with uknet.

ian