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From: flaps@utcs.uucp (Alan J Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Re: BBS software for sale
Message-ID: <912@utcs.uucp>
Date: Sun, 13-Oct-85 00:02:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: utcs.912
Posted: Sun Oct 13 00:02:58 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Oct-85 03:58:15 EDT
References: <4368@alice.UUCP> <1845@brl-tgr.ARPA> <819@umn-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: flaps@utcs.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal)
Organization: University of Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <819@umn-cs.UUCP> goldman@umn-cs.UUCP (Matthew D. Goldman ) writes:
>In article <1845@brl-tgr.ARPA> gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) writes:
>>Hardware and software "for sale" postings are totally
>>inappropriate.  This is NOT a BBS; it is a newsgroup
>>that is gatewayed into the Internet, where commercial
>>solicitation is prohibited.  Please restrain postings
>>to information exchange.
>
>Doug, kindly go soak your cpu in a lake.  I'm a reader who is intrested
>in for sale postings...

I think the idea is that "for sale" postings should not be posted to overseas,
is it not?  (This inference is from the fact that there is a na.forsale group.)
So if you are going to offer software for sale, just restrict the distribution
to na.  Or even less, if appropriate.