Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site jhunix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!aplcen!jhunix!ins_ajsk From: ins_ajsk@jhunix.UUCP (Jonathan Simon Kay) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Obnoxious USENET Advertiser Message-ID: <1212@jhunix.UUCP> Date: Sat, 16-Nov-85 14:39:31 EST Article-I.D.: jhunix.1212 Posted: Sat Nov 16 14:39:31 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 18-Nov-85 08:05:25 EST Distribution: net Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr. Lines: 70 Look what *I* found on net.general: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From aplcen!aplvax!umcp-cs!seismo!lll-crg!qantel!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!petsd!joe Wed Nov 13 15:50:51 1985 Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site jhunix.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site petsd.UUCP Path: jhunix!aplcen!aplvax!umcp-cs!seismo!lll-crg!qantel!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!petsd!joe From: joe@petsd.UUCP (Joe Orost) Newsgroups: net.general,net.rumor Subject: Perkin-Elmer DSG is now CONCURRENT Computer Co. Message-ID: <670@petsd.UUCP> Date: 13 Nov 85 20:50:51 GMT Date-Received: 15 Nov 85 11:03:33 GMT Reply-To: joe@petsd.UUCP (Joseph M. Orost) Followup-To: net.followup Organization: Perkin-Elmer DSG, Tinton Falls, N.J. Lines: 36 Xref: seismo net.general:4046 net.rumor:1158 <> Concurrent Computer Corporation 15 Main Street Homdel, NJ 07733 (201) 946-8883 November 13, 1985 The purpose of this letter is to introduce you to CONCURRENT Computer Corporation. In the past, you've known us as the Data Systems Group of The Perkin-Elmer Corporation, a leader in the 32-bit superminicomputer field. A company you could depend upon for state-of-the-art technology and unexcelled system reliability... backed up by a worldwide service network of more than 1000 hardware and software support engineers. As Perkin-Elmer, we offered the widest range of compatible systems - from supermicros to the world's fastest and most powerful superminicomputers. Perkin-Elmer, developer of the world's first 32-bit superminicomputer in 1974, is currently at the forefront of parallel processing technology. Now that we have become the CONCURRENT Computer Corporation, you can expect a continuation of this fine tradition. As a "one-business company," we are dedicating ourselves to focusing our resources and efforts toward your present and future computing needs. For additional information about CONCURRENT, please call us directly or contact your local sales office. Sincerely, James K. Sims President And CEO CONCURRENT Computer Corporation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- While we have been busy condemning everybody else for such vile practices as posting shareware, flaming, and non-optimization of mail paths, someone has crept into our midst and posted what is without a doubt the most flagrant violation of netiquette I have seen in my short tenure as a USENETter: a posting of an out-and-out ad to net.general. Well, what shall we do? I have already sent him some interesting reading (I restricted myself from sending as much as I would have like to send, in the name of keeping the associated phone bill below $1000 :-)... ). This is, according to the USENET primer, serious enough to warrant cutting CONCURRENT's news feed. Any comments? Jonathan Kay