From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!gnu Newsgroups: net.news Title: net.newprod -> net.ads? Article-I.D.: sun.173 Posted: Wed Jan 5 01:22:57 1983 Received: Wed Jan 5 06:37:15 1983 References: turtleva.117 I think a new products newsgroup would be great if people actually used it. (We would.) I think however it should be called net.ads, admittedly a break with the grand marketing tradition of doublespeak. In the "What is this newsgroup anyway" message #1, use of more than seven asterisks or exclamation points per message should be discouraged. Exact figures, verifiable prices, and working return addresses (uucp, postal, phone, twx, etc) should be encouraged (breaking with tradition again). John Gilmore, Sun Microsystems (non-marketing)