Xref: utzoo comp.dcom.modems:1206 news.misc:1116 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!husc6!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,news.misc Subject: Re: Telebit Modems Keywords: TrailBlazer highspeed-dialup Message-ID: <8019@g.ms.uky.edu> Date: 10 Jan 88 07:32:05 GMT References: <110@telebit.UUCP> <3101@phri.UUCP> <810@hsi.UUCP> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) Distribution: na Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 34 I suggested this directly to Mr. Ballard, but seeing as the discussion is continuing here I'll toss my $.02 out for everyone to see. We have any number of comp.all groups where there are representatives of various vendors answering technical questions of their customers and other tech-support kinds of things. A really strong example of this is in comp.sys.amiga where it seems to be part of the job for the CATS people to read and respond to Usenet articles. My feeling on this is that this is reasonable, but only so long as the postings remain of a technical nature. Occasionally however, things get "out of hand". For instance, engineers at intel and motorola slugging it out in each other's processor's newsgroup over who has the better chip this year. Or a recent exchange between a CATS person and someone at ASDG (or Micron? I don' remember) over an incompatibility/compatiblity problem on a memory board. Getting "out of hand" means being overly hype-y over your own product or overly not-hype-y over a competitors product. In both cases you're not posting so much from facts as from marketing considerations, and aren't being of any/much use to the net. On the other hand I wouldn't be against seeing some company start their own top-level newsgroups/distribution for use by their product support people. If so I would prefer seeing a top-level distribution for each manufacturer, so that the manufacturer is more responsible for the distribution of their product support information. -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <---- or: {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- <---- Winter health warning: Remember, don't eat the yellow snow!