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- From: jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
- Subject: Re: PasteUp vs PageMaker vs Quark (RTF)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.225237.22731@cube.handheld.com>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 22:52:37 GMT
- References: <wt2ylzl@rpi.edu>
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- In article <wt2ylzl@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
- writes:
- >
- > 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
-
- Come on folks, wake up and smell the coffee! I've said I before, but here
- goes:
-
- This is comp.sys.NEXT.* This set of usenet groups is ONE BIG COMMERCIAL
- PROMOTION FOR NEXT. We `push' NeXT sales here. To draw a line and say it's ok
- to blatently promote NeXT as a group, but not permit a developer to describe
- his NeXT supportive wares here is to draw a line in a far too grey area. NeXT
- needs these wares available in order to survive and to maintain the reason for
- these groups.
-
- And he ain't taking any orders here, folks. No mention of price at all.
-
- Fortunately, it seems to me (as always, my opinion only) that the complainers,
- while they are loud, are always the same select few.
-
- And I admit I am a loud proponent, there needs to be balance in the 'coverage'
-
- Jim
-