Dear Eric, you wrote to All,
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EE>ÿ@SUBJECT:Subject:commerical clipper announcements appropriate        N
  >I accidentally posted an announcment for the Clipper shareware CD-ROM my
  >company periodically updates in this conference. While many USENET,
  >RIME, FIDO, listserv and Web discussion groups welcome brief
  >announcements of direct, focussed relevance to the subject of the
  >discussion forum, others see ANY type of commercial message/announcement
  >as an invitation to $$$fast, sex, MLM, and other spam. I had been
  >requested (2 years ago?) by Phil to not post notices here, and had
  >complied until the mistake of several days ago. The moderator asked me
  >to place a post here describing the situation and perhaps start a
  >discussion.
EE>I certainly can understand the community's reluctance, and yet many
  >people do benefit by appropriate product announcements. I generally
  >suggest that commercial announcements be emailed to the moderator who
  >can decide to post or dump them.
EE>Comments?
as far i'm concerned,
some commercial announcements are welcome if they are clipper (or VO)
related.
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Best regards, Denis.
DENIS BRAUSSEN#2:325/200
denis.braussen@suptel.frmug.org
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