Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!bionet!bionet-20.bio.net!Kristofferson
From: Kristofferson@BIONET-20.BIO.NET (David Kristofferson)
Newsgroups: bionet.software
Subject: Re: MacPlasmap for drawing plasmid maps
Message-ID: <12491133478.15.KRISTOFFERSON@BIONET-20.BIO.NET>
Date: 3 May 89 21:25:31 GMT
References: <1443:wallace@fmi.ch>
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>>The complete package of MacPlasmap is available from Kinko's as
>>part of their Academic Courseware Exchange program at a price of
>>$29.95. Technical questions can be addressed to me directly.
>
>Excuse me, but isn't this an advertisement? I thought that this kind of
>thing was not allowed on an academic network. Correct me if I'm wrong, but
>I had the impression that commercial information of this kind contravenes
>the licencing agreement for the JANET network in the UK.
>
>I have nothing against good commercial software, particularly useful
>material for molecular biologists, I just don't think that taking 
>advantage of a bulletin board is the way to advertise it. (Even if it
>does only cost $29.95 - there is a principle here).
>
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>Andrew Wallace, FMI, Basel, Switzerland.
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Andrew is completely correct on this point.  Advertising is also
prohibited over the Internet in the U.S.  Obviously there are
sometimes hard calls as to what constitutes advertising, but I would
request that people with direct commercial interest in a particular
software package not post notices of this kind.  It is not uncommon,
however, for users of a commercial product to post an endorsement
provided that they state that they have no connection with the
company or product.  This does not appear to be the case here so I
must request that no further notes of this nature be posted.

				Sincerely,

				Dave Kristofferson
				BIONET Resource Manager

				kristofferson@bionet-20.bio.net

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