Newsgroups: news.misc
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Questions about UseNet Policies.
Message-ID: <1988Sep11.002639.7815@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8869@cup.portal.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 88 00:26:39 GMT

In article <8869@cup.portal.com> Ferg@cup.portal.com writes:
>Now here's my questions (finally!).  Can I advertise my part time business? 
>And if so, where?  I can't find any newsgroup titled BIZ.*.  

The crucial thing to remember is that when you post to the net, you are
spending other people's money to transmit your message.  By and large,
these people are *not* interested in spending their money for transmission
of your advertising.  Most (not all) of them will agree that a single
brief non-hype posting describing your services is appropriate, especially
if said services are something new and different.  Otherwise, the answer
is simply that this is the wrong medium for such advertising.
-- 
NASA is into artificial        |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
stupidity.  - Jerry Pournelle  | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu