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From: joe@lakesys.UUCP (Joe Pantuso)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Problems with "USENET Seal of Approval"
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Date: 30 Mar 88 04:48:44 GMT
Organization: Lake Systems, Milwaukee Wisconsin
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Summary: We do have (unofficial) backing of Commodore and (hopefully) will

have official backing.
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In article <1770@sugar.UUCP> karl@sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>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.
>-- 
>"Weekends were made for programming."  -me
>..!uunet!nuchat!sugar!karl, Unix BBS (713) 438-5018

Admittedly it could be unstable, that's why I'm being careful.  Concern has be
voiced over funding, I will take care of it (plus any kind souls out there)
and I have had offers from potential reviewers to pay their own shipping, they
don't mind.  Somone said they beleived there could be sticky legal
implications involving the net; I have not been flamed by any Netgods, and
several higher-ups have offered to review.  My node administrator has
consulted a lawyer as well, there are no problems.

You aren't considering the way a company sells their product.  NOONE goes out
to the store to buy a product they never heard of (though they do browse).
When a company submits an item to us they know that several hundred to several
thousand people will read the reviews (I've had quite a few offers to post on
bbs's, some 20 bbs's now with 80-400+ users on each).  So for only the cost of
thier product they get BIG advertising return.  The actual cost to a company
for a product is quite a bit smaller than the shelf price, and their return is
that many times greater.

I think we can speak for the net, we are the net.  If you think you are the
net and aren't being represented then say so...

We might call it somthing else anyway, but U-R's is so catchy ;-)

-Joe