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From: 6sigma@polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Red Ryder 11.0 Announcement
Message-ID: <1085@polari.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 89 05:49:16 GMT
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In article <987@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> ngg@bridge2.3Com.com (Norman Goodger) writes:
|In article <31019@news.Think.COM> barmar@kulla (Barry Margolin) writes:
|>Hmm, this is at least the THIRD posting of the White Knight 11.0
|>announcement I've seen.
[...]
|So I will wait a couple weeks before posting the annoncement
|again. I don't want to re-post it to be a pain or use net bandwidth, just
|to make sure that the largest number of users can locate and read the
|information and upgrade if they wish to.

Now wait a sec.  I didn't mind one posting on the upgrade.  Red Ryder
is a good product and White Knight certainly looks like it will be even
better, and undoubtedly many people who read comp.sys.mac use Red Ryder
and will want to upgrade.

However, the upgrade announcement is unquestionably a commercial
announcement.  White Knight is a commercial product.  I think one
such posting is enough, and would certainly be less than happy to see
more than the three I've already seen.

Why don't you send notices to your registered users, take out adds
in magazines and periodicals, etc. announcing the upgrade?  Yes, this
would cost money, but it would be your money, not that of the people
paying for the hardware and software which sends your commercial
announcement around the world.

Or are you planning to pay standard ad rates to all of the sites
carrying your postings?

Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sigma.UUCP