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From: karl@sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Problems with "USENET Seal of Approval"
Summary: I don't think we can speak as Usenet.  It'll be ignored without the
	 clout of Commodore or at least a major magazine.
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Date: 28 Mar 88 00:59:39 GMT
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I don't think these ad hoc usenet projects are stable enough in the long 
term to support something like this.  Also, I don't think we can speak 
as Usenet - we'd have to call it something else.  Further, what incentive 
does a software vendor have to get their products approved?  None, unless 
software purchasers demand it (and they probably won't, at least not on 
their own) or the vendors are made to feel the heat in other ways, like 
by being continuously flamed in AmigaWorld and Amazing Computing for writing 
badly behaved, buggy software.
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