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From: ab3@stat-l (Rsk the Wombat)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: First Annual UNIX Market Forum
Message-ID: <25@stat-l>
Date: Tue, 10-Apr-84 09:53:40 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 10 09:53:40 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Apr-84 04:37:09 EST
Organization: Purdue U.C.C. Unix Group
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	Now just wait a minute!!  This is one of the most blatant ads
to appear on the network in quite some time.  In my opinion, this one 
steps over the thin line between "informative message" and 
"money-making advertising".
	
	Now, before anyone proposes the "benefit to folks on the network"
argument, I would like to point out that this message explicitly states
that 

	"...Aimed at high level marketing and technical folks (detailed 
	technical discussions will *not* be presented)..."

	I invite speculation on the ratio of technical-people-who-read-news
to marketing-people-who-read-news, and thus, the applicability of this forum
to the network readership at large.  The list of topics (which I will not
repeat here) bears out the promise of the above statement.

	And then they have the gall to post the price and the contact
phone number!!  ARGH!!

	Well, I *used* to recommend their book...time to patronize S.R. Bourne
and Mssrs. Kernighan & Pike...
-- 
Rsk the Wombat
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