Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!dptg!ulysses!andante!alice!debra From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: FLAME ABOUT COMMERCIALS IN EMAIL [Books Account: Technical books] Message-ID: <10909@alice.UUCP> Date: 7 Jun 90 21:52:59 GMT References: <9006051701.aa28475@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU> Reply-To: debra@alice.UUCP () Organization: AT&T, Bell Labs Lines: 28 In article m1jjh00@fed.frb.gov (Jeffrey J. Hallman) writes: >In article <9006051701.aa28475@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU> baxter@robespierre.ICS.UCI.EDU (Ira Baxter) writes: > >> I DO NOT THINK WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE COMMERCIALS IN NEWSGROUPS. >> ... >I don't see the problem here. I also received this message and I >responded positively to it. The marketroid at least had the grace to >make his offer by email rather than posting it, and he did indicate >that only those who ask will receive the messages.... There is a difference between posting and e-mail: - if many companies start posting commercial junk to a newsgroup then it takes too much time to hit 'n' all the time to skip the junk messages, so people who do not have all day for reading news are going to quit reading the newsgroup. - if those companies start e-mailing commercial junk to people who post in a newsgroup then it takes too much time skipping the junk mail so these people will refrain from posting to the group in order to remain unknown. In either case it is likely that the people who could provide the most valuable contributions to the newsgroup are going to stop contributing in order to not waste their time on reading junk news or reading junk mail. Paul. -- ------------------------------------------------------ |debra@research.att.com | uunet!research!debra | ------------------------------------------------------