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From: dpz@athos.rutgers.edu (David P. Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,news.misc
Subject: Re: Telebit Modems
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Date: 10 Jan 88 22:57:38 GMT
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In article <8019@g.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) writes:

> 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.

It also means that you don't want to have the newsgroup turn into a
general flame session.  Given that Telebit has a good reputation and
seems to be very reasonable, the idea of a product support newsgroup
tree is great!  But if other-company X gets one, and all people do is
gripe and bitch (or the company is unresponsive), then it will go down
the drain.  Of course, you don't want to throw the baby out with the
dirty bath water, it is just something to be considered.  And, as has
been mentioned, like alt.*, if you don't want it, you don't have to
pay for it.

It seems that the newsreader support for this is high; how about other
vendors?  Can't create a tree just for one interested one.  If we find
others also interested, the idea of "prod-support.*" (I like
"vendor.*" better actually) should definately be suggested to the
backbone.

						dpz
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