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From: griesel@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Curtis W. Griesel)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: ADVERTISEMENT?
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Date: 4 Feb 90 03:56:50 GMT
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I'm still in favor of ads here.  Thought I'd respond to some of the
arguments that have been made against them:

>Speaking for myself, what I resent is when the add is a million lines
>long

Most news reading software has a facility to move to the next
article when you're sick of the one you're reading.  In rn it's the
"n" key.

>says buy, buy buy and your life will be so much better and buy it
>from us for only $9000.00!!!!!!! We have been working to make your life
>easier, so buy this product from us!

If you don't like a particular topic or sender, you can place the
topic or sender in a "kill" file.  Then you don't have to hear from
that sender or about that topic again.  Besides, anything posted
here has to be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism.

If people are still uncomfortable with ads here, how about a new
group, misc.handicap.newprod, where we could have free exchange of
new product information?  However, I STILL haven't heard how one
defines when a posting is an advertisement and when it's not.  I
guess we could let the moderator of misc.handicap decide for that
group, and not have any restrictions for misc.handicap.newprod.

I'm just afraid I'm going to miss some good information if we become too
restrictive.

-Curt
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Curtis Griesel                                        griesel@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu
                      Coordinator of Computer Access
Microcomputer, Workstation and Network Center; U of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
   "Disability is not the problem, peoples' attitude toward the disabled is."