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Re: comp.newprod (was: Why doesn't NeXT send press releases to comp.sys.next.announce?

#1426
From: Mike Ferris
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 21:59
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Charles Herrick writes
>Izumi Ohzawa writes
>> The thing I don't understand is:
>> 
>> Why doesn't NeXT send their press releases to comp.sys.next.annouce.
>
>
>Because it's a violation of the rules about blatantly commercial posts on  
>net news.
>
>There is a newsgroup specifically set up for blatantly commercial posts,  
>and it's called:
>
>	COMP.NEWPROD
>
>People should read it and use it. 
I thought that c.s.n.announce was "for" posts like that.  I see commercial  
posts there a lot, and it's moderated (so one would assume that only stuff that  
the moderator thinks should be there will be there).  Am I wrong?
-- 

Mike Ferris
mike@lorax.portal.com
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Subject: Re: comp.newprod (was: Why doesn't NeXT send press releases to comp.sys.next.announce?
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