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In article <1992Oct7.135843.433@hnrc.tufts.edu>,\
 saul_sy@hnrc.tufts.edu (Saul Tannenbaum) writes...
[... some NFSnet guidelines]
> (7) Announcements of new products or services for use in research or
>     instruction, but not advertising of any kind.
[...]
> 
> Press releases would seem to me to be covered under point 7. If Digital,
> unsolicited, started dumping press releases into a hierarchy other than
> biz, that would be wrong. But, if the users of VMSNet asked, and DEC
> responded in a considered manner, then I can't see any problem with it.

     Many of the press releases are advertising ("so-and-so just signed
a multi-million dollar agreement with Digital", or product releases which
include explicit pricing details).

     I think duplicating them in the vmsnet hierarchy would be a bad idea,
but then I'm biased since our news server carries the biz hierarchy.  I
find that I only look at about one press release per month these days
anyway; most of them are just noise.

     Seems to me that this falls in the category of "belongs to an already
existing newsgroup" so is not appropriate for vmsnet.  For the record, I'm
opposed to Terry's proposal...

		Pat Rankin, rankin@eql.caltech.edu