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- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!unipalm!ian
- From: ian@unipalm.co.uk (Ian Phillipps)
- Subject: Re: Looking for TCP/IP vendor
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.130206.7675@unipalm.co.uk>
- Followups-To: vmsnet.admin
- Organization: Unipalm Ltd., 216 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge CB4 4WA, UK
- References: <1992Jul8.065605.4346@dmc.com> <1992Jul8.200715.22914@eco.twg.com> <1992Jul12.233933.7910@unipalm.co.uk> <1992Jul15.000318.1412@twg.com> <1992Jul17.141735@mccall.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:02:06 GMT
- Lines: 38
-
- tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Jul15.000318.1412@twg.com>, oldera@twg.com (Ed Alcoff - Prod
- >Mtg) writes:
- >>>Since Mr. Pollack is posting an advertisement for his company's product
- >>
- >>Mr. Pollack is not advertising our product(s).
-
- >>However, it is my personal opinion that "happy" customers of any vendor
- >>also need to adhere to netiquette as well.
-
- I was the poster who mentioned "advertisement". I accept the prevailing
- opinion that what was posted fell short of this, and am happy to
- apologise for the use of what is obviously a more emotive word than I
- had intended.
-
- >>Even w/o "favors" it is not fair to the community to state
- >>things without being able to back it up with facts.
-
- >You may not have meant it this way, but your article seems to imply that vendors
- >have solicited their users to post "blurbs" about their product, and given them
- >something in return. This would certainly be a breach of netiquette, but this is
- >the first I've heard of such a practice. This would be a fairly serious
- >accusation, as it would indict the company's ethics.
-
- I should like to point out that my original reply contained a clear
- announcement - as did (by implication) the original one from Wollongong
- - that my employers have a vested interest in selling the software that
- I mentioned. There is no question of "favours" being given in this
- case, or any others that I know of.
-
- [Followups to vmsnet.admin]
-
- Ian
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