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From: daveb@llama.rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple,news.groups
Subject: Re: Claris support
Message-ID: <1648@rtech.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 88 22:45:06 GMT
References: <315@claris.UUCP> <2724@fluke.COM>
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Reply-To: daveb@rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Organization: Relational Technology, Inc. Alameda, CA
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>In article <315@claris.UUCP> clay@claris.UUCP (Clay Maeckel) writes:
>Dear new Claris product users,
>    Claris would like to be able to support our products here on Usenet
>and are concerned about the "non-commercial" aspects of this forum. We
>would like to be able to answer questions from the net, post official
>announcements, and upload demo versions of our software. 
>
>Let's take this on three levels:
>
> 1)  Answering questions from the net

Yes, that is fully appropriate.

> 2)  Official announcements

Yes, through comp.newprod ONLY.  That's what it's for.

> 3)  Uploading demo versions

No, it's hard to justify the phone/disk space for such obviously
commercial stuff.  You could provide an anonymous-uucp service for demos
and the like, and occasional announcements of its existance and contents
would be fair.

-dB
"I don't care what you say, as long as you spell my name right."
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