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saul_sy@hnrc.tufts.edu (Saul Tannenbaum) writes:
> UNACCEPTABLE USES:
> 
> (10) Use for for-profit activities (consulting for pay, sales or
>     administration of campus stores, sale of tickets to sports events,
>     and so on) or use by for-profit institutions unless covered by the
>     General Principle or as a specifically acceptable use.
> 
> (11) Extensive use for private or personal business.
> 
>[End of excerpt]

>Press releases would seem to me to be covered under point 7.

and under points (10) and (11).  so?  since noone has ever been
charged with violating NSF standards (usually they lock out the
indivual offender), its moot anyway.  there is no indication that NSF
is going to start cracking down.  the usage policy is has taken on the
aspects of a guideline.

> 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.

there is already an appropriate newsgroup dedicated for dec's press
releases, why reduplicate the effort?  if you want to get PR stuff,
then ask your upstream feed provider to send you biz.dec.  if your
feed doesnt get b.d, then get the stuff via e-mail.

the idea of having hierarchies is to segregate traffic so that
individual newsgroups don't have humongus amounts of volume and so
that people can get what they want smorgasboard-style.  rec.aviation
recently spun off _13_ subgroups because the volume had gotten so
high.  this history-l listserv just spun off 15 new lists.  the trend
is to segregate rather than amalgamate (or, in this case, duplcate).
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--- bob pasker
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