Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: proposed new distribution category
Message-ID: <17467@looking.on.ca>
Date: 19 Sep 89 22:02:04 GMT
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Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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Class: discussion

"Biz" misses the point, which is why there seems to be almost nothing
in it.  People post full-fledged ads to "biz", with marketing slogans
etc.  Most sites aren't interested, I suspect, in sending that around
on a regular basis with no pattern or controls.

Many sites are interested, even in blatant ads, if they came in
some sort of controlled pattern.  People buy magazines frequently just
to read the ads.

Almost all sites are interested in useful, interesting commercial
information such as product announcements (ie. comp.newprod) or commercial
developments directly relevant to netters.

The only thing that's not wanted, I think, is abusive advertising that
has no reciprocal benefit to the readers.  But people think that's what
"biz" is exclusively for (it isn't, people just think that) so biz has
not developed much.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473