Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1+some 2/3/84; site dual.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!dual!mats From: mats@dual.UUCP (Mats Wichmann) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Unpopular product announcement Message-ID: <737@dual.UUCP> Date: Sat, 4-Aug-84 11:33:26 EDT Article-I.D.: dual.737 Posted: Sat Aug 4 11:33:26 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Aug-84 00:28:06 EDT References: <1036@cca.UUCP> Organization: Dual Systems, Berkeley, CA Lines: 21 I posted an article negative to the posting of announcements in general. While I still feel *personally* that such postings are out of place (and certainly don't belong in net.sources - sorry I didn't notice this was in the newsgroups line when I followed up, so my comment went there too), the overall sentiment seems to be a bit against me. The conclusions I come to are that a) Make it sound like an announcement, not a commercial b) Don't send it to groups that get onto ARPA - it is a nono there c) Keep it failry short d) Pick the right newsgroup I can't tell people how to pick the right newsgroup - perhaps the right solution would be to have a set of guidlines agreed on by some reasonable majority of the net (like, 3% or so), and checked with administrative types who might conceivably have objections, and then have articles containing product announcements submitted to a moderator who would check that the content conformed to the guidlines (I know, it sounds like more censorship). This is probably not practical, but.... Mats Wichmann Dual Systems Corp. ...{ucbvax,amd,ihnp4,cbosgd,decwrl,fortune}!dual!mats