🚀 go-pugleaf

I also am concerned with advertising. Especially the potential
for stupidly cross-posted articles like this, damnit. 

Note where Followup-To is set to compared to the Newsgroups
line. Please be careful (I'm even dubious about triangle.freenet,
and biz.comp.services, but I'll give the initiator the benefit
of the doubt...). 

THIS is only part of the problems we *will* see if advertising
isn't heavily curtailed in it's earliest stages. If
I'm reading misc.forsale, I don't want to read company ads. 
I'll go to the 'right place' to read company ads. 

I don't mind advertising, as long as it's solicited. I shouldn't
have to go out of my way to ignore, remove, or delete one
single for-profit posting. Companies who want my net.business
should simply make it easy for me to find them and recieve
information. This doesn't not mean deluging me with
mail and news, but submitting information to some central
yellow pages, which is easy to use. Then, that one
clearinghouse for data would become a commonly known place
(and even one which is mention freely, without flamage). 

I would suspect the first company which sets itself
up to be the internet yellow-pages, which puts a fairly
high-bandwidth machine, with FTP space, WWW, WAIS,
Gopher, all the neat data-tools, and calls itself
yellowpages.com (or something equally obvious)
and charges companies some small fee (on a per/meg of
data basis, say) will win the fight. Then, freepages.com, 
will come along, and set itself up as a non-profit org 
will do this for free, but will be much less prestegious, and 
the larger companies will still pay for the dataspace. 

This will be doing us all a favor, and allow us in
the various topiced newsgroups to go back to our standard
flamewars. 

Have fun,

Jason R. Pascucci
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