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- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!geac!alias!imax!beltrix!zooid!vid
- From: David Mason <vid@zooid.guild.org>
- Newsgroups: tor.general
- Subject: Re: Reduced long distance rates!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.185924.1805@zooid.guild.org>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:59:24 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.033158.610@netcom.com> <1993Jan22.144556.21259@seachg.uucp> <1993Jan22.192926.36785@r-node.pci.on.ca>
- Organization: ZOOiD BBS
- Lines: 42
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- marc@r-node.pci.on.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan22.144556.21259@seachg.uucp> chrisb@seachg.UUCP (Chris Blask) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan19.033158.610@netcom.com> rudy@netcom.com (Rudy) writes:
- >>>In article <1993Jan16.205814.28588@becker.GTS.ORG> bdb@becker.GTS.ORG (Bruce Becker) writes:
- >>>>In article <1993Jan14.045223.2392@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> cs922177@ariel.yorku.ca (DANIEL T FARKAS) writes:
- >>>>|Reduced long distance rates are now available through the ICS
- >>>>|communications network.
- >>>> That was a commercial posting. It's not
- >>>> an acceptable usage of these newsgroups.
- >>>
- >>>Oh no... here comes net.police
- >>>
- >>>Who died and appointed you Brad Templeton?
- >>
- >>Yeah, he's got a point, though. We could all use this space to hawk our
- >>wares (or is that hawk a loogi?), but this is a non commercial forum and I
- >>personally hear enough sales poop everywhere else.
- >>
- >>-chris blask
- >
- >why is there no 'tor.commercial'? or 'tor.ads'? or something like that.
- >then those that aren't interested can just unsubscribed...and then we also
- >have someone to 'send' ppl who do want to post it. then again, we might
- >see price wars or something like that since ppl will be selling (commericial)
- >similar wares, eh?
- >
-
- I think this is an excellant idea. Tor.forsale is for non-commercial postings
- (and should stay that way), a tor.ads or something like that which allowed
- vendors to tastefully advertise their products would be very welcome. Of
- course it would be difficult to keep vendors from crossing the line to
- tasteless, but then I guess we would have to let the market vote on their
- style. Toronto is a large enough market that this should be a Toronto thing
- rather than an Ontario thing. It would be nice to have a newsgroup of
- net-aware businesses where people could find some competitive dealers.
-
- Of course the thing would be just as likely to turn into a giant flamewar (as
- is this conversation).
-
-
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