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From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Questions about UseNet Policies.
Message-ID: <14383@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 17 Sep 88 12:07:51 GMT
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In-reply-to: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)

In article <2042@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking (Brad Templeton) writes:
>In fact, any ad to a *.general group would be out of line.  The principle
>to remember is, does the ad serve the readers of the group?  This means
>it must be directly targeted at the group.

Well, you were right earlier when you say it's up to the ba.* readers to
decide for themselves.  I'd say the larger the group, the less appropri-
ate the ad is.  I don't think anyone could object to someone posting a
math books for sale ad to ucb.math.general.

I'm trying to figure out right now what to do about a possible ad for an
encyclopedia.  A bookstore that I work for (very minimally: I order the
math and physics books in exchange for discounts) has a $2500 encyclope-
dia that some company gave them "on consignment" (meaning pay for it when
sold) rather than lug it back east after some booksellers' convention.
(OK, I admit, I got a free coffee cup with a picture of the encyclopedia
on it to boot.  Better than a dumb T-shirt, I suppose.)

But I don't like the idea of engaging in advertizing like this at all.
So for now I've decided to not do it.

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720