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From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Administrivia redux (stop voting! please!)
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Date: Fri, 15-May-87 13:15:24 EDT
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At the current time, the vote on press releases stands at 51 to
continue passing along releases, and 4 against.  I think that qualifies
as enough of a quorum that we can stop voting on the issue. They will
continue.

At the same time, however, a number of good points were brought up, and a 
number of folks made it clear they were interested in information and not
hype. Fortunately, I tend to agree with them, and there are also some 
explicit rules against advertising on the Arpa internet that need to be
kept in mind.

So, here is how I plan on dealing with it in the future.  If something is 
obviously (to me) a press release, the Subject line will be prefaced with
the word "Release:" -- folks who don't care can use that as a key to zap
it.  I will also be making the distinction between a release and a 
solicitation for business.  If you are announcing a product, that is one
thing, but I will not pass along solicitations.

There is a big grey area here, which I'll arbitrate on a case by case
basis.  Generally, if it is something that a newsletter would publish
as an announcement, it ought to get published in desktop.  If it is
something
a person would have to buy advertising for, then it will get rejected.

One thing I will NOT do is edit down releases to make them more acceptable.
I don't have time for that.  If someone sends me something I can't publish,
I'll return it and let them worry about editing it.

thanks for all the feedback!

chuq
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