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From: wbe@bbn.com (Winston Edmond)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Marketing on tcp-ip (was Re: BBN/Slate(TM) ...)
Message-ID: <58634@bbn.BBN.COM>
Date: 1 Aug 90 22:58:13 GMT
References: <58504@bbn.BBN.COM> <1990Jul27.202346.2089@ibmpa>
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>>In article <58504@bbn.BBN.COM> mckenzie@labs-n.bbn.com (Alex McKenzie) writes:
>> (announces BBN's marketing for a multimedia product, deleted)

In article <1990Jul27.202346.2089@ibmpa> brunner@ibmsupt.UUCP () writes:
>Alex, this posting _really is_ using the list and gatewayed newsgroup(s)
>for commercial purposes.

Except that "selling" something for essentially the distribution cost alone
sounds pretty much like a non-profit activity, even if it is being done by a
for-profit company.
 -WBE