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In misc.fitness.aerobic MegaMike <mjclauss@earthlink.net> wrote:
: If someone posts "Hey Lynn, you sell X, what kind of prices do you have?"
: Then you're ok posting a link.

Well, even that's borderline.  For one request like that, it's best to 
send e-mail.

This is less about the fact that the post is an advertisement than just 
applying common sense to how much of the readership really cares about
the answer.

[Do the USENET rules have to make sense?]

USENET is a series of "virtual" communities.  Just as it's inappropriate
to go to your neighbor's yard (or the park in your town square) and put up
a billboard without getting permission from the community, so it is 
inappropriate to commandeer USENET space without finding out what the rules
of the community are first.

There are a few places (like the biz.* groups and some of the *.marketplace
groups), where ads are not only welcome, but encouraged.  However, a large
number of people (and probably the majority of misc.fitness.*, at least) hang
out here at least in part because it's one of the few places Ted Turner 
hasn't figured out how to pipe CNN into yet.

					larry...