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In article <1992Apr25.035239.6808@sura.net> lidl@sura.net (Kurt J. Lidl) writes:
>In article <1992Apr23.233523.2409@access.digex.com> mike@access.digex.com (Michael T. Doughney) writes:
>>In article <1992Apr21.175935.23352@asd.com> scott@asd.com (Scott Barman) writes:
>>>I need to get information on public access Unix systems in the DC
>>>area (for someone who does not have net access and wants it!).
>>>If you want to post (to advertise), fine but please email me a copy.
>>>
>>
>>   Express Access Online Communications Service for Washington-Baltimore
>>   ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>A Public Access Unix serving the Maryland - D.C. - Northern Virginia region.
>>
>>[long, obnoxious posting removed]
>
>This newsgroup is *NOT* an appropriate place to post this.
>Why didn't you just e-mail it, like the original posting asked
>for?
>
>Please re-read the new users guide to correct network practices.

Why not? It's certainly pertinent to DC.  I wish I had seen postings
like this *more* often when I needed them... I lost net access when I
graduated from college, and had no idea how I could get it back again.
Services like the one advertised (which I happen to subscribe to, but
am not otherwise affiliated with) are very important to people who do
not go to school or work in a place where there is internet access and
want to stay on the net.  Where else should they advertise? How else
will people find out about this very valuable service?  Seems like the
most obvious place is on the net.

Whatever the exact usenet guideline which pertains to commercial 
advertising is, I think that an exception which most people won't have
a problem with is people who offer *usenet access*.

You may take your usenet access for granted but a lot of people leaving
college or changing their place of work don't and benefit from services
such as digex.... that is, if they can find out about them.
-- 
James A. Treworgy    "And it all would be so crystal clear, if it wasn't for
jamie@digex.com         the foam..."          (jamie@sun.astro.wesleyan.edu)