In a message of 27 Jul 96 Paul Edwards wrote to Mick Howe:

 PE> I think you meant AUST_TRADING.  But that echo has different rules. I
 PE> don't like the idea of disallowing private trading ads.  Personally I
 PE> would like to have just the one trading echo, with commercial posts
 PE> allowed.

And put up with all of the "Pay me for the free advertising"
posts from boring sysops?   ;-)

Apart from that, commercial uses of Fidonet are against its charter.


Catchya

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