🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <SCOTT.92Sep4230802@nic.gac.edu> scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess)  
writes:
> In article <873@rtbrain.rightbrain.com>,
> 	glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid), who is being portrayed
> 	by Jack Reynolds, writes:
> >While Glenn has been working hard to get the software out the door,
> >others have been assembling this comparison.
> >
> >If you'd like to know more, fire an email to reynolds@rightbrain.com
> >because the reply address on this post is to Glenn's account, not
> >mine.  He disabled my machine from posting (but was foolish enough
> >to leave his machine logged in and unattended!).
> 
> <large RTF posting omitted>
> 
> Hopefully this time around Glenn will take more vigorous action -
> like breaking your fingers or something.  I don't know if you read
> these groups (apparently not), but Netnews is _not_ there for
> companies to make profit from.  Self-serving advertisements
> certainly qualify as commercial for-profit usage. 

I agree with Scott on this.  For those who don't agree, prepare to see  
comp.sys.next turned into the marketting venue for any NeXT developer with  
half a brain.  They'd have to be stupid to pass up a free advertising  
medium, assuming we're all happy to give it to them.  Jack has already had  
one go-around posting ads to comp.sys.next.advocacy, and apparently had such  
fun with that that he's taking his marketting campaign to other newsgroups.

I'd love information on NeXT products, but I'd have much more faith in any  
product comparisons if they were produced by someone who didn't have such a  
vested interest in the product.  

Given that PasteUp sees fit to compare PageMaker and Quark, certainly it  
would be fair for their advertising departments to come up with their own  
ads to post to comp.sys.next.*.  Is that what we really want to get out of  
our usenet newsgroups?

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA