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In article <1992Aug29.033828.3270@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> dmm0t@rincewind.mech.Virginia.EDU (David Meyer) writes:
>Yes, but including prices in c.s.n.announce would _decrease_ the
>hype-to-info ratio.  Having the prices announced in a moderated group
>would restrict hype considerably; and telling us how much these
>packages cost would dramatically increase the information content of
>the posts.

Banning commercial posts from csna would decrease the hype to info ratio
also. But I recognise the need -especially for small companies- to get
the word out about their products. This does not reduce the danger,
however, that clever marketing people will abuse this medium which has a
huge readership and costs almost nothing. I'd be much happier with a
publicly accessible directory on an archive server, where product
information could be retrieved. One could, then, restrict the
announcements to just a line saying who released what and where to find
more info. I agree that information with prices is much more useful, but
that is not the *only* argument to be considered. Just because Usenet
has been abused by several people in the past does not justify this
behavior for the future.

>Personally, I don't see much point in announcing commercial packages
>unless prices are included.  

I don't see much point in supporting the advertisement of commercial
packages on Usenet at all. 

I think that it is not such an easy topic to decide upon, and I
certainly don't think this discussion is 'ridiculous', as the original
poster (the one to whom I answered initially) put it.

Have fun!
- Apostolos


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