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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: WAN Bridge/Router over Fractional T1 (64K)
Summary: Did anyone else find this too commercial?
Message-ID: <95891@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 7 Apr 91 20:13:56 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.152925.8267@exloghou.portal.com> <11659@cpoint.clearpoint.com>
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Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <11659@cpoint.clearpoint.com>, martillo@cpoint.clearpoint.com (Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo) writes:
> 
> Clearpoint Research Corporation makes a high performance ethernet....
 [and so on for about 70 lines.]

I sent the author the following note:

> > Please try to avoid such advertising.  There are many other solutions
> > available for the requester's needs, most from vendors with employees who
> > read this news group.  
> 
> > Vernon Schryver,   vjs@sgi.com

The response contained direct insults, and included an observation that the
Clearpoint article was similar to <1991Mar30.185821.7385@lut.ac.uk> about
Spider's bridge, differing only in length.

Was I wrong in finding the Clearpoint article past the edge of
non-commericalism?  Would it be wrong to ask that such lead chasing be
conducted by email, with summaries to the net by the original requester?
Would it be too much to ask that such product announcements be concise
enough to fit on a single 80-line screen?


Vernon Schryver,   vjs@sgi.com