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In article <1992Nov11.004618.29074@ncsu.edu> echyatt@eos.ncsu.edu (EDWARD CRAIG HYATT) writes:

[I write]:

>I am using this group to announce recently published work.

[He writes]:

>I'm disturbed by this new trend of announcing new publications.

>This amounts a commercial use of the Internet, which is strictly forbidden.

	Maybe yes, maybe no.  At the time I posted, I felt qualms about
doing so, but I thought about my own responses to seeing others' similar
announcements and decided to go ahead with it.

	What motivated me (and I suspect motivates most others) was not a
wish to bend the net to my need to turn a profit but rather was pride.

>If this kind of thing gets started, the place will become cluttered
>with advertisements.  I'm not the net police or anything, but I
>don't like it....

	Fair enough.  I'm not concerned much, by the way, with the 
sacrosanct "commercial use of the Internet"--which seems to me a *very*
fuzzy notion--but with the wishes of those in the newsgroup.  (To briefly
address the fuzziness of the idea, consider that one of the publications
I mentioned is produced by a professional organization which I believe has
non-profit status; certainly, I received no payment for what I wrote for 
them, nor will I.  Is announcing this publication in any sense 
"commercial"?)

	However, if people find such announcements objectionable,
they should say so; and if not, they should say that.  I remain interested 
to hear about what others are publishing and do not begrudge them the 
opportunity to say so in even reasonably appropriate newsgroups; 
I am also willing to concede that I may be blinded by self-interest and 
so unable to see that such actions should not occur.

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