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From: scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Brad-bashing
Summary: No bashing, just commenting on bad judgement.
Message-ID: <765@dtscp1.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jun 89 02:49:57 GMT
References: <3492@looking.on.ca> <356@ubbs-nh.MV.COM> <21929@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman)
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In article <21929@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) writes:
>In the referenced article, there's various ranting and  raving
>about Brad's new ClariNet scheme, including
>>B.T. Go Away! (Permanently, please).
>
>Do people stay awake at night thinking of ways to get mad at brad?
>He's one of the few people on Usenet who's actually
>thinking about the net, and trying to do something about it.
>If you don't like the service he's offering, don't
>subscribe to it, but there's no need to bad-mouth him
>at every opportunity.

I Think the problems here is the cross posting to news.* newsgroups.
If he left it in comp.newprod I do not see any problem with his self
publicity.  It is my understanding comp.newprod is for new products,
which this is, but I do think it is in bad taste to cross post it here.
(NOTE: I have not "bad mouthed" him in the past).

Brad, next time post it to comp.newprod and if you want to build an
audience, put a little blurb in the news.* groups to check comp.newprod
for more information.  I think this is a *little* more appropriate and
would be a *little* more acceptable to net.reader (as well as us regular
readers of the news.* groups).
-- 
scott barman
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