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- Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
- Path: sparky!uunet!techbook!jamesd
- From: jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele)
- Subject: Re: Q: Commercial use of the Internet?
- Message-ID: <C1LFDA.6KI@techbook.com>
- Keywords: Internet,Usenet,commercial,private
- Organization: TECHbooks --- Public Access UNIX --- (503) 220-0636
- References: <X7BXBF9B@cc.swarthmore.edu>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 02:10:20 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- kohn@cs.swarthmore.edu (Daniel Kohn) writes:
-
- >But can I purchase the Compuserve mailing list?
-
- Probably not. Even if they did sell it, they claim to have over
- 500,000 users. That adds up quickly, even at a penny or 10 cents a name.
-
- >Would it violate the law or general netiquette to post advertising on Usenet?
-
- Nobody will kick in your door in the middle of the night and arrest you.
- Depending on how persistent and annoying you are, you may very well
- encounter "mail bombs", complaints to school or legal authorities,
- forgeries purporting to be from your accout, and more.
-
- Most groups frown on advertising, and rightfully so. If you can
- advertise, why shouldn't I? And my next door neighbor? And his wife's
- sister? And ...
-
- >If not, what group(s) would be appropriate?
-
- There is now:
- biz.newprod New product announcements of all types
- biz.press-releases Information of all kinds from companies
-
- Depending on far you are from UUNET, they may not hit you for a while.
- But they were proposed two weeks ago and newgrouped this afternoon when
- nobody objected to their creation.
-
- Charter for the groups is in the newgroup control message.
-
-