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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Usenet Advertisements
Message-ID: <341@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Sep-83 17:37:37 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 22 17:37:37 1983
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We've been through this before, with the general feeling that ads were OK
as long as they weren't annoying.  This means they should go to an appropriate
group, not be repeated, be clearly marked as ads, not be repeated, only be
for things that are of technical interest to the net, and not be repeated.

We do have another alternative.  We could offer paid advertising on Usenet
(either in a special newsgroup or in appropriate newsgroups) and use the
funds raised for things of benefit to Usenet, such as enhanced services
(paying moderators to provide moderated versions of some newsgroups) or
the development of useful software which could then be distributed free
to the net.