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From: gl8f@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
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Subject: Re: Z*Net International
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.065938.3820@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 19 Apr 91 06:59:38 GMT
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In article <1991Apr17.142554.2284@inel.gov> lph@INEL.GOV (Randolph Pacetti) writes:
>
>If I recall correctly, another reason that this was shouted down last
>time was because of the advertising in Z*Net, which goes against the
>Usenet no-commercialism policy.

Well, what you're remembering is the ST Report flap. The ST Report
on-line magazine always had an advertisement for hard-drives from the
editor's business. That's fine on GEnie and CI$, but isn't in line
with Usenet etiquette.

Z*Net's only flaw in this regard is that sometimes they're a bit
enthusiastic about reprinting verbatim press releases from software
companies. These sometimes go overboard on the advertising side. But I
don't think I've nuked one in ages.

All in all, Z*Net is a much better publication than ST Report anyway.