Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!aplcomm!capd.jhuapl.edu!waltrip From: waltrip@capd.jhuapl.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: *** Top Prize Winner - IMPACT Software Contest *** Message-ID: <1991Apr27.212046.1@capd.jhuapl.edu> Date: 28 Apr 91 02:20:46 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> <0cwgha+@rpi.edu> Sender: news@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU Organization: CAPVAX, JHU/APL Lines: 28 In article <0cwgha+@rpi.edu>, Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu writes: [...material (mostly from other posters) deleted...] > To zero in on the question posed (as opposed to the larger war that is raging), > I for one do not follow comp.newprod. I am not interested in all products that > have some connection to computers, although I might be interested in all > products that have to do with NeXT computers (and Mac computers, but that's an > issue for other newsgroups). > > By posting to comp.newprod, you're going to reach more people that you don't > care about (people who don't own NeXTs), and fewer of the people you do care > about. > I don't read comp.newprod either and I like to see new product announcements (including prices) in this newsgroup. I prefer them to be blatant instead of disguised--which is what I mostly didn't care about in the Impact postings. Let them go ahead and be blatant...in fact, I would like to see the heading state "commercial announcement." > All the above is just my own humble opinion, of course. Of course. And ditto:^) c.f.waltrip Internet: Opinions expressed are my own. > > --- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu