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In <1992Nov15.231107.21506@netcom.com> Tom Maddox writes
|In article <1992Nov11.004618.29074@ncsu.edu> echyatt@eos.ncsu.edu (EDWARD CRAIG HYATT) writes:
|
|>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.
  . . .
|	However, if people find such announcements objectionable,
|they should say so; and if not, they should say that. . . .

Definitely not (objectionable, that is).  Even putting aside the fact
that people legitimately post product announcements (as distinct from
advertisements) on technical newsgroups, we* consider this sort of
posting both interesting and relevant.

	/JBL

*Speaking strictly for myself and me, of course.