Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!ccncsu!purdue!news.cs.indiana.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!helios!cnh5730 From: cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: *** Top Prize Winner - IMPACT Software Contest *** Message-ID: Date: 26 Apr 91 16:32:59 GMT References: <1991Apr25.134348.25432@ni.umd.edu> <1991Apr25.143604.3979@macc.wisc.edu> <1991Apr26.015221.4672@shaman.com> <1991Apr26.130728.11444@ni.umd.edu> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Lines: 28 In article <1991Apr26.130728.11444@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes: Why don't they post to comp.newprod, where there is no question that the postings are commercially motivated hey, good idea. And they could cross-post to comp.sys.next so WE don't have to subscribe to comp.newprod. then writes My problem is that the postings being made had little to contribute to spreading useful information to folks that read the newsgroup This is your opinion. My opinion is that most of the stuff on the newsgroup is a waste of bandwidth, but then that's what our 'n' key is for. Use yours. and then writes Its the blatent solicitations that cross the line. Again your opinion. We all have our lines. Use your 'n' key. -- "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche