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From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Warning: Product Announcement (game)
Message-ID: <407@xdos.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jul 89 17:21:33 GMT
References: <8916.AA8916@heimat>
Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley)
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In article <8916.AA8916@heimat> sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) writes:
(someone wrote:)
:> Is this not commercial abuse of our network?
:
:  The reason I posted this was to draw feedback so I could see where the c.s.a
:  readers stand on this kind of thing.
:
:  All the replies I have received E-Mail indicate that this is abuse while the
:  public postings indicate that its not abuse because it warned of a commercial
:  announcment in the header and that it was only posted once.
:
:  So based on the above it seems that a one time posting with proper subject
:  line is not abuse. This sounds fair to me.

Refer anyone who gives you a hard time to news.announce.newusers,
which naturally they should read anyway.

You are easily within the limits of acceptable netiquette.
Briefly, multiple advertisements are verboten, simple announcements,
answers to questions, etc, are fine.

Some naive new users become self-appointed censors in the mistaken
belief that Usenet must pretend that commercial products do not exist.
	Doug
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Doug Merritt		{pyramid,apple}!xdos!doug
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