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From: nerd@percival.UUCP (Michael Galassi)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,news.misc
Subject: Re: Telebit Modems
Message-ID: <1048@percival.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 88 10:10:31 GMT
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From article <3101@phri.UUCP>, by roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith):

> Perhaps the thing to do would be to start up
> a new top-level name called prod-support (or whatever).  Each vendor which had
> a commercial product he wished to support via news would start up his own
> group (prod-support.telebit, etc) and take responsibility for administering
> the topology of that particular group; finding new customers feeds, or
> providing feeds themselves as they prefer.  Since only those sites that were
> interested in getting those groups would get them, the normal rules about not
> using the net for commercial purposes wouldn't apply.

Having recently ordered a Trailblazer myself I would like to support this.
The only drawback I can see is companies like USR and Hayes (in this specific
example (if they are on the net)).  I could not fault them for not wanting to
pay the added costs for what they could easily call a marketing tool of their
competition.  Do we get into the net-equivalent of equal air time?  Perhaps
this should be negotiated between representatives of the companies involved
before we get to chew on it?

By the way, I think Telebit's conduct deserves a standing ovation, there
are many companies which would have started pumping the net full of info
with no concern for the conventions in use, they instead have qietly
refrained from any advertising hype and consulted those of us who
ultimately will carry the burden and reap the benefits of the decision as
to what to do.  I only wish I could come up with some truly simple and
universaly satisfactory answer but alas...

-michael
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