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- From: jon@afs.com (Jonathan Hendry)
- Subject: Re: Prices on c.s.n.announce
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.134441.468@afs.com>
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- References: <Btxorx.3tL@research.canon.oz.au>
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- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:44:41 GMT
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- In article <Btxorx.3tL@research.canon.oz.au> greyham@research.canon.oz.au
- (Graham Stoney) writes:
- >ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu (Ernest Prabhakar) writes:
- >>There are lots of reasons, most of them historical, for why prices were
- >>forbidden from being on USENET.
- >
- >Craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap!
- >(Gee, that felt good!).
- >
- >It's not _prices_ that's forbidden, it's _advertising_. Take the price off an
- >advertisement, and what have you got?. Yes!. You've still got an
- advertisement.
- >Either the prices should stay, or the advertisements should go: this is what
- >the debate should be about, and historically the answer is that the
- >advertisements should go. Keeping the advertisements but X'ing out the prices
- >is bad regadless of whether you want the ads or not: everyone loses!
-
- I agree with this. How often does one see prices on TV ads? Pretty rarely. But
- they're still commercials. I think prices (esp. if there is an ed. discount)
- should be allowed, but keep the hype down.
-
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- Jonathan Hendry Anderson Financial Systems
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