From owner-cvs-ports Sun May 3 16:46:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25121 for cvs-ports-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 16:46:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-ports) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25107; Sun, 3 May 1998 16:46:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfieber@indiana.edu) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA09656; Sun, 3 May 1998 18:46:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 18:46:15 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Eivind Eklund cc: Matthew Hunt , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/ijb - Imported sources In-Reply-To: <19980503230438.48318@follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 3 May 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > Refusing to download ads from the WWW is very bad practice. Those ads are > paying for the service you're using. I'm not even certain we should have > the above program as a port Yikes! The economics of the Internet are very young and far from being well understood. In other words, they are in that critical period of being formulated and are quite maleable. Are you actually proposing that we consumers should just sit on our collective ass and just take whatever we get force-fed? I couldn't possibly disagree more. I think consumers should be empowered to define the economics of the internet. -john