🚀 go-pugleaf

|> 
|> [The position of this moderator, and most of the other moderators of technical
|>  groups, is that news releases which indicate availablility of products is
|>  acceptable news for the group. I do not allow blatant advertising---indeed,
|>  I not too gently steer it offline. Fuijitsu is a major player, so the release
|>  is news.

Other netters have sent me mail in support of my position, although
I am not speaking for anyone else.  A lot of people in comp.parallel
know which company I work for.  I have been told VERY, VERY explicitly
that I cannot conduct any type of business activities on Internet.
Obviously, a lot of companies out there are in violation of this policy.

I understand that press release can be of interest but Fujitsu's
post really sounds more like a business promotion.  As someone has 
already pointed out, there are a lot of subjective opinions if 
not unscientific conclusions in the post.  I understand that press 
releases are often written by the marketing instead of the engineering
department and that's the way they are.  However, if companies are that 
eager to announce their products, I am certain that the
moderator can tactfully ask them to tone it down a little bit.  
No one I know was seriously offened by Intel's announcement of their
first shipment of the Paragon, which was basically a factual and 
objective piece despite the usual marketing hype, 
but Fujitsu's post was just a little bit uncalled for.  

[I have already answered the poster by e-mail. The crux of the response is
 this. The moderators have spent a great deal of bandwidth on the subject
 of commercialism. It has been left to our discretion as to what constitutes
 that commercialism.

 Over the past life of the group, I have posted news releases uneditted.
 The implied condition on these posts is, as with anything done by business
 people, {\em caveat emptor}.

 ---Steve