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- From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
- Newsgroups: tor.general
- Subject: Re: Reduced long distance rates!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.131039.19475@druid.uucp>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 13:10:39 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.033158.610@netcom.com> <1993Jan20.122249.7854@druid.uucp> <2B5E1132.663C@telly.on.ca>
- Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting
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- evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.122249.7854@druid.uucp>
- > darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
- >>rudy@netcom.com (Rudy) writes:
- >>>In article <1993Jan16.205814.28588@becker.GTS.ORG>
- > bdb@becker.GTS.ORG (Bruce Becker) writes:
- >>>> That was a commercial posting. It's not
- >>>> an acceptable usage of these newsgroups.
- >>>Oh no... here comes net.police
- >>Bruce was responding to a commercial posting. Commercial postings are
- >>considered unacceptable.
- >
- >This cannot be correct as a blanket statement. Job postings from
- >headhunters are not considered out of bounds in the *.jobs groups, and
- >there are a number of *.newprod groups for product announcements which
- >are, by nature, commercial postings. We have newsgroups dedicated to the
- >maintenance and support of specific commercial software. There are
- >countless other examples of "commercial" stuff on Usenet.
-
- Yes and in all cases there are special rules; post to specific newsgroups
- or hierarchies, give information not marketing, etc. The point is that
- sometimes people cross the line and post innapropriate stuff. Yelling
- "Net.police" is not a reasoned argument, it is an attempt to bypass
- argument.
-
- Really you make some good points Evan but my post was more concerned
- with the unwarranted - and unsupported - attack on Bruce. If he had
- arguments or even unsupported opinions he should have presented them.
-
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