Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!ames!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace Subject: Re: hardware Message-ID: <1991Feb6.025859.21403@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 6 Feb 91 02:58:59 GMT References: <57396@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <1991Feb2.012241.21339@math.lsa.umich.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 34 dbuchtal@math.lsa.umich.edu (Dave Buchthal) writes: > Even in c.s.a.marketplace, blatent advertisements are frowned upon. True. > The net should not be used for commercial purposes. True, and true by law for sites on the net supported by state or federal governmental entities, and thus by extension at least morally for the rest of the net whose postings transit those sites. > While it is perfectly acceptable to recommend one company due to > satisfactory service, it is wholly inacceptable to post a company's > product catalog and ordering information. But this I think is a judgement call. While unsolicited postings of long price lists are obnoxious and boring, and posting stuff from magazines most of us pick up to shop from anyway is a waste of time, and sending stuff by post before trying email a couple of times is a newbie trick, I think there may still be times when a price list for a little company of which most of us would never hear under ordinary circumstances might be OK. It just shouldn't be done by an employee or other interested party, since that constitutes commercial use. . I don't think of a customer's posting a price list as advertising, just information, though posting prices for dust covers in response to queries about monitors is probably right out. Kent, the man from xanth.