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In article <wt2ylzl@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)  
writes:
> 
> 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?
> 
> --
> Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
> ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA

Come on folks, wake up and smell the coffee!  I've said I before, but here  
goes:  

This is comp.sys.NEXT.*  This set of usenet groups is ONE BIG COMMERCIAL  
PROMOTION FOR NEXT.  We `push' NeXT sales here.  To draw a line and say it's ok  
to blatently promote NeXT as a group, but not permit a developer to describe  
his NeXT supportive wares here is to draw a line in a far too grey area.  NeXT  
needs these wares available in order to survive and to maintain the reason for  
these groups.

And he ain't taking any orders here, folks.  No mention of price at all.

Fortunately, it seems to me (as always, my opinion only) that the complainers,  
while they are loud, are always the same select few.

And I admit I am a loud proponent, there needs to be balance in the 'coverage'

Jim