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From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Obnoxious USENET Advertiser
Message-ID: <3500023@ccvaxa>
Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 17:10:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 19 17:10:00 1985
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Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!preece    Nov 19 16:10:00 1985


> ...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.
> ...This is, according to the USENET primer, serious enough to warrant
> cutting CONCURRENT's news feed.  Any comments?  /* Written  1:39 pm
> Nov 16, 1985 by ins_ajsk@jhunix.UUCP in ccvaxa:net.news.group */
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Perhaps a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but some of us
do like to have words used correctly.  That is not (NOT) an ad.  It is
an announcement.  It doesn't ask you to buy anything.  It just says
they've changed their corporate identity.  There are probably a fair
number of people on the net who would be interested in hearing of
that change.  That is a perfectly reasonable use of this net and
in particular a perfect reasonable use of net.general, which is
specifically chartered to carry items of general interest.

Some people are totally without a sense of proportion.

-- 
scott preece
gould/csd - urbana
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