[d@DCC] Unintended consequences of treating the anonymous part of the Internet as other than BY-NC-ND

[mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca]

On Mon, 23 May 2005, James McKinney wrote:
> Usenet is just a technology. Google is just offering access to Usenet.

If you read Google's marketing material, it seldom if ever mentions
Usenet.  Google purports to be offering access to something called "Google
Groups".  Some other archivers go much further in the direction of
representing Usenet as something they invented and control all of.
-- 
Matthew Skala
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