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From: Rich.Harper@f419.n104.z1.fidonet.org (Rich Harper)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Advertisement?
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Date: 3 Mar 90 05:06:54 GMT
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        I am an echo moderator, and would tell you what Fido considers ok.

        1.)  No advertising is allowed in the echos.  But if you know of a 
product or service that is good, you are allowed to mention it as long as 
you are not the one selling the product.  That is unless there is a value of 
the product such as a discount for the users of the echo.

        2.)  If you write or create a program that will be of use to the 
echo users, send a copy to the echo moderator and if he thinks it is good, 
then he can mention it.

        These two rules are used to protect the user of the echo from fraud 
and what have you by people that will only get into an echo to make money 
from it.  I have only seen one person allowed to more or less do anything 
with a commercial program, and that was in Blink Talk.  He sells the 
Arkenstone reader, which is a well known product here, and he got the 
company to make a discount or give a scanner with each reader sold.  So the 
moderator allowed him to mention his board where you could get the 
information by asking for it.  That is as close to advertising as I have 
seen in the 3 + years I have been on the echos.

        <<Rich>>  
 

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