🚀 go-pugleaf

I'd like to offer these suggestions for postings of a commercial nature:

(1) Make sure the subject line says "announce:" so that readers can
easily choose whether to read one or not.  Be sure that your posting is
not a thinly-disguised advertisement... in other words, "would you be
recommending this if you didn't happen to sell it?"

(2) Don't post it over and over again.

(3) Be sure the product or service you're referring to is of direct
interest to the newsgroup readership.  We -do- work in a niche market
here; good products are to be found everywhere in the world, where the
books and magazines we buy just don't reach.  Good products and services
are worth knowing about.  But wildly off-subject postings are a waste of
time and mouse-clicks to everyone, from Singapore to South Africa to
Norway to, well, Baltimore.

(4) Please don't take it upon yourself to be a one-man "bit policeman,"
guardian of netiquette on behalf of the entire world.  If you don't
agree with it, don't read it.  Let it slip right on by.  For every one
participant here there might easily be 100,000 silent readers.  You
really must not be the judge of what is or isn't "relevant."  Usenet
newsgroups derive their greatest power from free and unfettered, but
always on-topic (in somebody's opinion) exchange of ideas.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Sundial Services :: Scottsdale, AZ (USA) :: (480) 946-8259
mailto:info@sundialservices.com  (PGP public key available.)
> High-speed, script-driven, table repair/support for Paradox/BDE...
> ChimneySweep{tm}:  "Click click, it's fixed!" {tm}
> http://www.sundialservices.com/cs3web.htm