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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,news.misc
Subject: Re: Telebit Modems (actually prod-support newsgroup)
Summary: oh really
Message-ID: <2067@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 9 Jan 88 17:40:54 GMT
References: <3101@phri.UUCP> <1499@codas.att.com> <5411@zen.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
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Posted: Sat Jan  9 09:40:54 1988

In article <5411@zen.berkeley.edu> spp@zabriskie.UUCP (Steve Pope) writes:
>Given the "no-commercialization" rules on usenet, starting
>a newsgroup with a specific commercial purpose in mind (telebit product
>support) seems like a notably bad idea.  Best to just sneak
>whatever you can into comp.dcom.modems.

Oh yeah ? Where have you been living, under a rock ?

Look at comp.sys.anything, product support is a way of life.

Apollo even does weekly product announcements; they asked in the group
if the readers would mind, and the consensus was no.

Richard [give the people what they want] Sexton

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