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From: emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin
Subject: Re: How about "The American Way"?
Message-ID: <EMV.91Jun25135450@bronte.aa.ox.com>
Date: 25 Jun 91 17:54:54 GMT
References: <1991Jun25.063045.22031@mel.dit.csiro.au>
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<excerpt>
In article 1991Jun25.063045.22031@mel.dit.csiro.au 
	smart@mel.dit.csiro.au (Bob Smart) writes:
   There are two ways of supporting broadcast services: government
   funding (the BBC) and advertising (the American way). Why not end
   each comp.archives posting with

     Comp.archives is brought to you by the Big Blue Computer Company
     -- number 1 in information processing.
</excerpt> <par>
Sure, it could even be topical by the origins of the group involved; I
think I'd put it in the verification section like so.  Tags are
prototypes right now, and you'll excuse the blatant advertising, which
is included without anyone's permission.  (The archive-normal-form is
also a prototype worth looking at.)
</par> <par>
Newsreaders could be configured to ignore the advertising, which
should make this sort of use completely consistent with most usenet
guidelines.  Advertising is not offensive if it is unobtrusive and if 
can be easily ignored, either if it is separated into its own
newsgroup (comp.newprod) or perhaps it it's explicitly tagged.
</par>
<verification>
<kw>
ups	debugger saber c dbx adb gdb x11 sunview ups-2.31
</kw>
<archive-normal-form>
19910520.2205 ftp export.lcs.mit.edu /contrib ups-2.31.tar.Z 963435
19910520.2237 ftp export.lcs.mit.edu /contrib ups-2.31.README 9758
19910528.1254 ftp ftp.uu.net /tmp ups-song.ms 1237
19910529.0944 ftp ftp.uu.net /tmp ups-song.au 1456032
</archive-normal-form>
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<snappy-quote>
Those who have tried (ups) claim it's the next-best thing to Saber C.
-- Mark Moraes, comp.archives article 1991Jun3.231125.11963@ox.com
</snappy-quote>
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</verification>

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Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com
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