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In my opinion there should be catered to two goals:
a) keep the news free of too much commercial junk
b) keep it informative

A product announcement without prices does not help me at all. A
program that might be helpful is one thing, but if it costs too much I
don't even want to bother to show my interest to the vendor; even less
I want to waste my time doing so. Thus add the prices.

On the other hand restrict the product descriptions to facts, i.e. let
them have feature-benefits lists etc. or a short description of the
company. However we should refuse hype like "xxx is the BEST publisher
of NeXT software" and garbage like that. The moderator should refuse
such passages or simply change them to "xxx is a publisher of NeXT
software". If anyone is "best", "permier" etc. should be left to the
reader. Also all the statements about who said what about a product
should be cut out. They are about as useful and true as if someone
claims that the bible says that there is no God. These statements just
don't say the full truth, and the bible says: "The fool hath said in
his heart, There is no God." Quite a difference... :-)

So my vote: add the price, cut the junk.

Ronald



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