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From: casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Another 9600 protocol!
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Date: 4 Mar 91 00:34:11 GMT
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| From: al@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Al Peterman)
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| [[Posts an ad for a new modem.]]

  As far as I can tell you're not associated with the company whose
product you posted an ad for.  Nevertheless, it's a bad idea to posts
product ads for any reason in any newsgroup other than comp.newprod.  It
would have been a much better idea to have contacted the company and
suggested that they arrange to post their ad on comp.newprod and then
post a short note on comp.dcom.modems pointing readers at that article.

  I understand that you probably didn't intend to break any USENET
etiquette guidelines, but it's never a good idea to post commercial
material to news groups other than comp.newprod no matter how interesting
the product is.  Please don't take this wrong.

Casey