Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!neat.cs.toronto.edu!omicron.cs.fsu.edu!fsucs.cs.fsu.edu!boyd From: boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Question! Message-ID: <9003271743.AA02045@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu> Date: 27 Mar 90 17:45:25 GMT References: <1478@electro.UUCP> <2640@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca> Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Department Lines: 29 >Ignac says: > > Do you Usenet folks feel that the posting of our demos of our products here > is a worthwhile endevour, or should we stop? > Are Usenet folks REALLY care all that much if a commercial endorsement is > made in the demo?? Well, could this problem not be solved (and everyone made happy) if a version was posted to the net that did NOT have the "Available from X at $XX.XX" line? If a substitute was made like "Send email to X or snailmail t Y for more info" would that not satisfy the non-commercial requirement of the net? I for one do not think that a demo should be held from the net just because it advertises something, but I can see where that could get out of control if people abused it. I have always thought that most user text in a program was stored in the .RCS file. A net-only version, if easy to produce, may be the best way to solve this dilemma. Again, this is IMHO, and I could easily be wrong about the .RCS file thingy. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- Mickey Boyd | "Nobody can be exactly like me. FSU Computer Science | Even I have trouble doing it." Technical Support Group | mail: boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu | - Tallulah Bankhead ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------------------------