Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cos!hadron!inco!mack
From: mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Questions about UseNet Policies.
Message-ID: <2610@inco.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 88 15:30:42 GMT
References: <8869@cup.portal.com> <2465@epimass.EPI.COM>
Reply-To: mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack)
Organization: McDonnell Douglas-INCO, McLean, VA
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In article <2465@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
>In article <8869@cup.portal.com> Ferg@cup.portal.com writes:
>> [wants to advertise his modems, asks about biz groups]
>
>biz.* is an alternate network hierarchy that is paid for by the
>companies in question.  If you were a large company or one with a very
>popular product, you and your customers could set up dedicated news
>feeds under the biz.* hierarchy to do customer support, product
>announcements, and what have you.  This is not something you can do
>from Portal.

The only product-specific group in the biz hierarchy is biz.comp.telebit.
The other groups are, as far as I know, general purpose. They are:

biz.comp.hardware
biz.comp.services
biz.comp.software
biz.comp.software.demos
biz.comp.telebit
biz.config
biz.misc
biz.stolen
biz.test

If you can talk Portal into subscribing to the biz groups, then presumably
you can post your advertising to them. Alternatively, you can subscribe
directly to uunet, which carries the biz groups.

>>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.*.  
>
>You cannot.  Anywhere.  I'm sorry, but that's just not what the net is for.

Except in the biz groups, as someone mentioned to you before.

I'm not sure how useful this would be actually be, however. There is
very little traffic in the biz groups. Presumably, this is due to
horrible connectivity and/or lack of interest.

Dave Mack aka