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- From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: GEnieLamp
- Message-ID: <44GB03r7b89g00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 18:45:56 GMT
- References: <jpenne.720938011@ee.ualberta.ca> <1992Nov5.145735.28266@exu.ericsson.se> <1992Nov5.161837.16977@cas.org>
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- In article <1992Nov5.161837.16977@cas.org> lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:
- >I agree - this is going TOO far. I mean, the entire *.gno group is a support
- >group for a commercial product. Every comp.sys group has announcements
- >about products.
-
- Good thing the Apple II is a freeware product, or this whole group would be
- considered commercial. :-)
-
- Defining "commercial advertisement" is like defining "pornography"; you might
- not be able to define it exactly, but you'll know it when you see it. I don't
- personally have a problem with GEnieLamp, but I can see why people might.
-
- >As for making it available for ftp - since some companies have their
- >whole product line av ailable for ftp, I can't see a newsletter which happens
- >in a few words to mention how to get onto a service can be any thing closer
- >to commercial than that.
-
- It depends on the policy of the site in question. Some sites get annoyed at
- having commercial stuff, others have no problems with it. There is no "no
- commercial stuff" policy for the Internet; lots of businesses do work though
- it (e-mail, file transfers, etc). There are certain pieces of it which are
- marked as "no commercial traffic" (I believe NSFnet is), but the Internet
- is defined by the sites which are part of it, not the other way around.
-
- >Larry W. Virden UUCP: osu-cis!chemabs!lvirden
-
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- fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- [ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
-