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Sundial Services wrote:

If I may briefly elaborate on my own posting, point three:

> (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. 

To me, the Usenet newsgroups are the =single most important= source of
information making me aware of, and giving frank evaluations of,
commercial and shareware  software products.

[Hmm, where do we draw this line between "commercial" and "shareware,"
anyway?  It's all one-and-the same, folks.  And look at what "giving
stuff away" did to Microsoft and Red Hat, Inc.  We buy all the time, and
are happy so to do.]

Some of the best tools in the world are created in second bedrooms.  

I vividly remember my first experience with a high-speed data import
utility for Paradox for DOS, which replaced FLIMPORT (bow, wow...) and
shaved many hours from a weekly processing job.  A valuable tool (from
Kallista) that I could easily not have even been =aware= of.  I did not
pay the slightest bit of attention to how much it cost because it
enabled me to go home on-time on Thursdays.

Usenet groups bring us all together for a common purpose:  to use the
tools we use, more effectively.  That also means "build vs. buy"
decisions, or "buy vs. do without" decisions, are made all the time. 
Part of what we are trying to avoid here is having them be made "by
default," because someone didn't know any better.

I firmly believe that the "real" participants here -- can police
themselves, thank you.

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