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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: The New Acorn Range In Portsmouth
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.235239.27399@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:52:39 GMT
- Sender: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
- References: <18631@acorn.co.uk> <BuMvv5.Ft0@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
- Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland
- Lines: 50
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- Gavin.Flower@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Gavin Flower) writes:
-
- >In article <18631@acorn.co.uk> slovesey@acorn.co.uk (Simon Lovesey) writes:
- >>THE NEW ACORN RANGE ON DISPLAY IN PORTSMOUTH
- >>
- >>On Saturday 19 September "The World Of Acorn" will be visiting
- >>The Guildhall, Portsmouth. On display will be
- >>the recently launched Acorn 32 bit computer range,
-
-
- >This is the third time I've "had" to read this! I don't live in the
- >UK, let alone Portsmouth!
-
- >Once is acceptable, but *3* times - is a trifle excessive!
-
- Exactly. Try typing "uk" instead of "world" at the distribution prompt.
-
- This is ESPECIALLY bad, as this has been posted on usenet, which is
- NOT ACORN'S PRIVATE ADVERTISING NETWORK.
-
- I am happy to see press releases about new machines every 6 months or so,
- and bits & pieces of information that are of interest to the readership,
- but Acorn should take more care to post INFORMATION, not ADVERTS to these
- groups.
-
- e.g. "A new version of the PC Emulator has been released.
- It now has an option to beep on startup.
- Acorn have more details if you are interested"
-
- rather than
- "A new version the PC Emulator has been released. Hype Hype. Hype.
- Most brilliant thing ever. More hype. Irrelevant twoddle about how
- Acorn is the industry leader. Some more Hype. The upgrade now supports
- an extra option to make it beep on startup. Acorn succeeds again!
- Hype. Bullshit. Hype. To order your upgrade, please send $19.95
- by cheque or postal order to: ..... Visa, BankCard, Diner's,
- and American express all welcome"
-
- The readership of the group want to hear the NEWS.
- We do NOT want to to be deluged with Acorn advertising campaigns.
- Just because usenet postings cost nothing does not give you the right to use
- them as free advertising.
-
- (Sorry, but several of us here have been getting more and more annoyed about
- this attitude for some time now, so I thought it was about time I said
- something.)
- --
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