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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Ads on Usenet
Message-ID: <456@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 88 18:04:54 GMT
References: <8869@cup.portal.com> <2465@epimass.EPI.COM> <2020@looking.UUCP>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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In article <2020@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
> There has never been any "decision" on commercial material.  It is indeed
> a subject of much debate.
> 
> But it has faded off because I don't think it is doing what it should.  We
> get bunches of postings spaced several weeks apart, all very general.  For
> unknown reasons, some of the news guidelines actually say that product
> announcements should go in comp.newprod, and *not* in the group where the
> readers would be interested.
> 
> This makes no sense to me.  Each comp.newprod article should also be
> crossposted to the correct group (comp.unix, comp.sys.whatever).

What I've done, when posting products announcements for Niche Marketing,
is to put the full announcement in comp.newprod, and then VERY brief
(i.e. five to six line) pointers to the announcement in the appropriate
groups.

So far, no nasty mail has resulted.

Clayton E. Cramer