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- From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson)
- Subject: Re: New HP Workstations
- Message-ID: <BxnuwG.IuA@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil
- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, DC
- References: <1dtq85INNb7o@trwvssi.vssi.trw.com> <BxM0Mu.2B3@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <BxMo8o.HMC@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:26:39 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- In article <BxMo8o.HMC@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> kwthomas@nsslsun.nssl.uoknor.edu (Kevin W. Thomas) writes:
-
- >I disagree. New major product announcements and pricing info should be made
- >available to people in groups such as this. These announcements are big news,
- >and there are a lot of us that really need the information.
-
- The posting of marketing announcements in regular USENET groups
- really truly is objectionable (and possibly illegal) and belongs over
- in comp.newprod ONLY. A very large number of sites can lose all net
- access over "commercial use" restrictions and so it is important to
- isolate commercial product announcements in comp.newprod (which
- newsgroup is then not carried by the sites under commercial use
- restrictions).
-
- The RIGHT procedure is for the vendor to post the full product
- announcement over in comp.newprod and then to post a note in
- comp.sys.hp that says something like "We have a bunch of new products
- and have posted the details to comp.newprod go there and read them if
- you're interested."
-
- >People are talking about the new Sun products, including pricing in the Sun
- >groups. I've yet to see one complaint about this, and I really appreciate the
- >information.
-
- Must not have seen the 3 gripes (one of them from me) over there yet.
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