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- From: bengtl@maths.lth.se (Bengt Larsson)
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- Subject: was :Re: Advertising on Net: how can we stop it?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.090357.15677@lth.se>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 09:03:57 GMT
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- OK, one last point.
-
- >No group addresses the middle ground -- what people want to see -- which is
- >interesting and useful information from *all* quarters. What I care about
- >is if a posting is interesting and on topic, not the motives of the poster.
-
- If one compares with other media (newspapers for example) there is
- much more advertising there than what people want to see, all else
- being equal. That's why advertising space has to be paid for.
-
- It's this "pay for play" that there won't be with advertising in a
- Usenet-type group, and that's why I suggested linking advertising with
- editorial material (financing the other material).
-
- >In fact, it [biz] didn't get really get off the ground until a strange
- >political battle caused the SCO oriented newsgroups to go there.
-
- >For unfathomable
- >reasons (looking back), even though there are many unix-vendor-dedicated groups
- >on the net, people got in a fuss about SCO, and a regular net group appeared.
-
- Because there was a large number of people from the company itself voting
- for it, as I recall.
-
- --
- Bengt Larsson - bengtl@maths.lth.se
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