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From: casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: TELEBIT WAN-IN-A-BOX!!!
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Date: 26 Oct 90 17:56:51 GMT
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Hi Cerafin,
  I assume you work with Bill Hofing.  Say hi to him for me.  Nice to see
you have an email address now!

  Just a quick note.  You shouldn't publish product announcements to any
newsgroup except comp.newprod.  It is acceptable to post a very short
note in another news group mentioning that you've just made a product
announcement on comp.newprod, but no more than that.  Something along the
lines ``I've just posted an announcement of a new Telebit product called
the NetBlazer in comp.newprod that I think would be of interest to
comp.dcom.modems readers.  The NetBlazer allows you to set up wide area
networks via the phone system.''

  The reason we do things that way is because USENET is *supposed* to be
non-commercial.  We've relegated new product announcements to
comp.newprod and set up a completely separate biz.* hierarchy for
commercial uses.  I'm posting this note just remind everyone that most
USENET groups are not appropriate for commercial purposes.

Casey