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From: os9paul@gkcl.ists.ca (Paul Good)
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Subject: Re: the OSKer
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Date: 23 Jul 90 03:56:40 GMT
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In article <1990Jul20.031520.24021@ecn.purdue.edu> dev@ei.ecn.purdue.edu (Larry Weeks) writes:

>He's sacrificed much of his time and money to support OS9.

Or perhaps he has 'invested' his time and money in the hopes of turning a 
profit.

>More power to him. 

For putting out a magazine for the OSK/OS9 community: YES.  For advertising
on Usenet: NO!

>The Usenet is for the free dissemination of information.

Yes, it is.  BUT it is not to be used for free advertising of your products.
Have you read your users' info material lately?  Product announcements
are allowed; commercial advertising is not.  If Scott had made one
announcement of his new magazine, not many would have complained.  He
has however issued a number (it's coming, it's here, still some free
issues available).

>And while the "commercial" offers of misc.forsale purporting to get 
>you easy money are indeed in very poor taste, his offer was far from
>that. 

I'm not sure what your point is here.  Is it that some people break the
rules, so Scott should be allowed to as well?

>Geesh, no gratitude. No wonder there is so little motivation to 
>develop for OS9. Let's hope the MM1, Paul, Kevin, and other people like
>Scott change that.

It appears you are confused as to what the actual issue is.  I'm sure
there are many people that appreciate efforts to expand the OSK universe.
However, that does not require them to grant carte blanche to step on
the Usenet guidelines.

Paul Good   INTERNET: os9paul@gkcl.ists.ca   UUCP: ists!gkcl.ists.ca!os9paul