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- From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
- Subject: Re: PasteUp vs PageMaker vs Quark (RTF)
- Message-ID: <wt2ylzl@rpi.edu>
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- References: <SCOTT.92Sep4230802@nic.gac.edu>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 03:41:04 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- In article <SCOTT.92Sep4230802@nic.gac.edu> scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess)
- writes:
- > In article <873@rtbrain.rightbrain.com>,
- > glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid), who is being portrayed
- > by Jack Reynolds, writes:
- > >While Glenn has been working hard to get the software out the door,
- > >others have been assembling this comparison.
- > >
- > >If you'd like to know more, fire an email to reynolds@rightbrain.com
- > >because the reply address on this post is to Glenn's account, not
- > >mine. He disabled my machine from posting (but was foolish enough
- > >to leave his machine logged in and unattended!).
- >
- > <large RTF posting omitted>
- >
- > Hopefully this time around Glenn will take more vigorous action -
- > like breaking your fingers or something. I don't know if you read
- > these groups (apparently not), but Netnews is _not_ there for
- > companies to make profit from. Self-serving advertisements
- > certainly qualify as commercial for-profit usage.
-
- I agree with Scott on this. For those who don't agree, prepare to see
- comp.sys.next turned into the marketting venue for any NeXT developer with
- half a brain. They'd have to be stupid to pass up a free advertising
- medium, assuming we're all happy to give it to them. Jack has already had
- one go-around posting ads to comp.sys.next.advocacy, and apparently had such
- fun with that that he's taking his marketting campaign to other newsgroups.
-
- I'd love information on NeXT products, but I'd have much more faith in any
- product comparisons if they were produced by someone who didn't have such a
- vested interest in the product.
-
- Given that PasteUp sees fit to compare PageMaker and Quark, certainly it
- would be fair for their advertising departments to come up with their own
- ads to post to comp.sys.next.*. Is that what we really want to get out of
- our usenet newsgroups?
-
- --
- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
- ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
-