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Subject: Re: The ZMAG/ST Report Mailing List
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Date: 21 Jan 89 05:39:29 GMT
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From: dal@syntel.UUCP (Dale Schumacher)

[Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com (Charles K Hughes) writes...]
> 
>   In reply to the one no vote, which I didn't see until after I posted my 
> earlier article...
>   I never saw that discussion and I have been reading this newsgroup for 6
> months now.  So far the requests for the ZMAG posting have been all favorable 
> except yours.  There seems to be no reason not to post ZMAG that I can see; as
> has been said before and will be again...just use whatever feature you have 
> available to SKIP the ZMAG posting.
[...mild flames skipped...]
>   Views and opinions change with time; since yours is the only view opposing 
> the posting, I think it fair that we go with the majority and start posting 
> the ZMAG.

I was hoping (as I expect a lot of others on the net were) that this would
die quietly and I wouldn't have to waste net-space to argue it.  The intro
information that each user is supposed to read regarding usenet "policy"
basically says that usenet is *NOT* to be used for blatant advertisement.
It's impossible to discuss new products without mentioning them, or to
recommend dealers, so this is not a black and white area, but direct posting
of advertising material is STRONGLY discouraged.  Since, last time I read
one, these "magazines" contained such ads and, their copyright clause forced
them to be included in all copies, they are NOT POSTABLE simply by virtue
of usenet policies.

PS.  As a side note, I also don't read them since I find their content to
be somewhat shallow (too much rumor-mongering) and often biased, but my
argument against thier posting is founded on entirely different grounds.

--
      Dale Schumacher                         399 Beacon Ave.
      (alias: Dalnefre')                      St. Paul, MN  55104
      ...pwcs!stag!syntel!dal                 United States of America
    "It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things."