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- From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace
- Subject: Re: Holiday NeXT Sale!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.053009.6786@cs.yale.edu>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 05:30:09 GMT
- References: <1992Dec24.055728.16243@crl.com>
- Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News)
- Reply-To: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
- Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
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- Nntp-Posting-Host: hilbert.biology.yale.edu
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- In article <1992Dec24.055728.16243@crl.com> smg@orb.com (Samuel M.
- Goldberger) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec24.021222.7501@netcom.com> jimlynch@netcom.com (Jim
- Lynch)
-
- > > You must know that commercial posting is not permitted, yet here you
- are.
- >
- > Sorry to offend, but I must differ. Shortly after this group was begun,
- Glenn
- > Reid of RightBrain posted a summer special; so did Dave Peter of HSD.
- Then I
- > did. And so have other developers.
-
- They were wrong to do so, were flamed for it, and haven't
- repeated the offense. It's a violation of the USENET
- guidelines posted in the news.* groups.
-
- However, one question is: what is the distinction between an
- individual profiting from such sales and a business?
- It's a hard one to answer.
-
- Another question is: what is the balance between such
- announcements being a service to the community and being
- more blatant commercial exploitation of the net? Again, a
- tough one to answer, although Andrew and I decided that
- such "sales" announcements do not belong in the announce
- group.
-
- --
- Nathan Janette
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