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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Marketing your software
Message-ID: <0RXRm2w162w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 23 Jul 90 19:12:56 GMT
References: <1990Jul23.011210.8148@alembic.acs.com>
Organization: The Programmers' Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack) writes:
> You're wrong, they DO belong here. Goddard's product may be very useful
> to those of us who don't plan to spend our retirement eating dogfood.
> I, for one, thank him for informing us of the existence of this product
> and encourage others to post similar informative articles.

If you want to read ads, subscribe to the biz.* groups.  The whole reason
for their existence is to keep commercial stuff out of the comp.*, news.*,
etc. groups.  I read comp.os.msdos.programmer (for example) because I'm
a MS-DOS programmer and want to read all the hints and discussions about
programming under MS-DOS.  If I wanted to read advertisements for
hypertext marketing programs, I'd read the biz.* heirarchy.  (Hint: I
don't.)

> WOW! You own the York University Computing Services? Jeez, I am
> really impressed.

Maybe he doesn't support York University Computing Services, but a lot
of other people (or people acting on behalf of companies) pay for their
feed.  Anybody who gets news from uunet paid for the article.  If my
newsfeed was long-distance, I'd pay for the article, too.  And the
fact still remains that mudos is my home system, and it belongs to
me -- which means he's using MY hard disk to store his ad.  Not to
mention that it's unfair to force possible competitors to pay for
your advertising, which is exactly what you're doing when you post
an ad to a non-biz.* group.

--
Marc Unangst               | "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little
mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us  | minds."
...!umich!leebai!mudos!mju |           -- Samuel Johnson