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From: elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 3000T
Message-ID: <00671692071@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM>
Date: 15 Apr 91 05:07:51 GMT
References: <1991Apr13.225922.5978@cc.helsinki.fi> <1991Apr12.135607.24556@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Organization: Eric's Amiga 2000 @ Home
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From article <1991Apr13.225922.5978@cc.helsinki.fi>, by ronkko@cc.helsinki.fi:
> I think it would be a good idea to some of our C= people to post a DETAILED
> description of this machine to comp.sys.amiga.announce, so that each of us
> don't need to ask separately about every wire in it. BTW, I hope that Commodore
> starts to use that newsgroup also 'officially'. (So, Dave H. and all others:
> please tell your superiors and marketing people that there is a very cheap
> way to reach a lot of Amiga users all over the world and market new products
> from your company!)

Note that the members of USENET frown upon using the network for commercial
advertising or any "official" purpose. The way that most member companies
see it, their netnews feed is solely for exchange of technical information
about the state of the art, a necessity for helping keep their engineers
up-to-date. They don't want to use their netnews feeds to do commercial
advertisements for competitors.

Not to mention that the NFSNET, a major carrier of USENET news, is
forbidden (by U.S. law) to serve commercial (sales) purposes.

In other words, Commodore might raise more ruckus than they cared to if
they wanted to make their presence on the USENET "official". Something
which might be hard to appreciate there in Finland, but here in the U.S.
politics can get sort of hairy :-}.

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Eric Lee Green   (318) 984-1820  P.O. Box 92191  Lafayette, LA 70509
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