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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!brunix!brunix!rca
- From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C. Antony)
- Subject: Re: Prices on c.s.n.announce
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.192510.241@cs.brown.edu>
- Summary: less hype, add prices
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- References: <199208281821.AA05203@cnam.cnam.fr> <1992Aug28.193432.14085@utstat.uucp>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 19:25:10 GMT
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- In my opinion there should be catered to two goals:
- a) keep the news free of too much commercial junk
- b) keep it informative
-
- A product announcement without prices does not help me at all. A
- program that might be helpful is one thing, but if it costs too much I
- don't even want to bother to show my interest to the vendor; even less
- I want to waste my time doing so. Thus add the prices.
-
- On the other hand restrict the product descriptions to facts, i.e. let
- them have feature-benefits lists etc. or a short description of the
- company. However we should refuse hype like "xxx is the BEST publisher
- of NeXT software" and garbage like that. The moderator should refuse
- such passages or simply change them to "xxx is a publisher of NeXT
- software". If anyone is "best", "permier" etc. should be left to the
- reader. Also all the statements about who said what about a product
- should be cut out. They are about as useful and true as if someone
- claims that the bible says that there is no God. These statements just
- don't say the full truth, and the bible says: "The fool hath said in
- his heart, There is no God." Quite a difference... :-)
-
- So my vote: add the price, cut the junk.
-
- Ronald
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