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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Obnoxious USENET Advertiser
Message-ID: <620@kitty.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 1-Dec-85 10:42:10 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  1 10:42:10 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Dec-85 07:09:51 EST
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Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
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> ... 
> 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

	Everyone is entitled to at least one error in judgement, especially
in the environment of Usenet where people often engage their terminal prior
to engaging their brain. :-)
	So Mr. Sims is proud of his company and a bit overzealous; so what?
He is most assuredly now aware of his faux pas, and I am reasonably certain
that he or other members of his organization will not post a similar article
again.  There was no real harm done, since I rather doubt that the above
article posting gave Concurrent an unfair competitive edge over other vendors.

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