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- From: jim@n5ial.chi.il.us (Jim Graham)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Hayes Press Release: Pocket V.32bis/V.42bis/Fax 144 m
- Message-ID: <721318825snx@n5ial.chi.il.us>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 06:48:02 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.160950.9235@telesoft.com>
- Organization: Me? Organized? Hah! :-)
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- In article <1992Nov6.160950.9235@telesoft.com> trevor@telesoft.com writes:
- > In <6287.2af9d8e1@hayes.com> tnixon@hayes.com writes:
- >
- > >Notice: The following Hayes press release is provided for news and
- > >information purposes only and is not intended to be construed as a
- > >commercial advertisement or solicitation.
- >
- > I'm sorry, but if it quacks then it's a duck. The only purpose of a
- > press release is to get more interest in your great product. Put it
- > in comp.newprod, please.
-
- here we go again.....
-
- umm, some of us read *comp.dcom.modems* for discussions on modems (as
- opposed to other groups). but there's more involved in that discussion
- than just questions about ``why doesn't my modem [fill in blanks]?'' or
- ``why am I being limited to xxxx cps with xxx modem?'' --- there are
- other topics that *NEEED* to be here for the modem discussion to be
- complete. one of these is the set of technical discussions that pop up
- from time to time (usually seem to evolve from something else). another
- of these is information about what's new and/or coming soon.
-
- Toby has always been a tremendous resource to this group (at least, for
- as long as I've been around here), and when, every now and then, he
- posts this info on new stuff that's coming out, think about it in
- relation to the above paragraph.... now, if the group degenerated to
- the point that it was nothing *BUT* press releases on new products, I'd
- be outta here. but the odd press release every now and then is, IMHO,
- not a problem, and quite the contrary, is a good thing. suppose someone
- happened to be interested in one of those?
-
- [donning flame-proof clothing and turning on e-mail flame filters to
- mention possible new group that may or may not be a good idea....]
-
- the point is, it's reasonable to expect modem-related announcements such
- as that in comp.dcom.modems. now, if you'd rather move it to a .newprod
- group, why not comp.dcom.newprod? that way, the scope is more limited,
- and it becomes more reasonable than asking someone to wade through a lot
- of non-datacomm related posts all the time to find those few that are
- datacomm products.
-
- but short of something like comp.dcom.newprod, info about new modems
- belongs here a lot more than in comp.newprod. think about it for a
- minute....what's this group's topic?
-
- --jim
-
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