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From: rg@gandp (Dick Gill)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: WAN Bridge/Router over Fractional T1 (64K)
Message-ID: <349@gandp>
Date: 11 Apr 91 22:26:57 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.152925.8267@exloghou.portal.com> <11659@cpoint.clearpoint.com> <95891@sgi.sgi.com>
Reply-To: rg@gandp.UUCP (Dick Gill)
Organization: Gill & Piette, Inc.
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In article <95891@sgi.sgi.com> vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
>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
[stuff deleted]
>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

Yes, you were wrong.  Far from a product annoncement, the
posting was a well written and concise description of the
product that he had designed to solve the problem posed by the
original poster; I wish that just HALF of what I see on the net
was this informative !-)

I don't know who has what agenda in this complaint, nor do I
parrticularly care.  I for one am delighted that hardware and
software designers have a forum to discuss their creations and
enlighten those of us who need more information but find
marketing brochures a bit to fluffy.

As to the 'commercialism' aspect, I suspect that everyone on the
net gets paid by SOMEONE, and that postings like the one in
question are no more biased than most others.  Besides, he
actually had something useful to say !-)


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