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From: rcj@burl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.general
Subject: advertising on the net -- a (hopefully) viable solution
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Date: Tue, 28-Jun-83 10:43:39 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 28 10:43:39 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 30-Jun-83 19:36:56 EDT
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Advertising is, I think most people will agree, a privelege -- not
a God-given right.  I see no reason (reiterating Andy's stand here)
to let advertisers use our telephones, cpu's, and (by natural
extension) our money to line their pockets.  We have entered a mode
in America today when it seems to be the consumer's duty to "look
for the best bargain" or "find" the sales.  This is accomplished
in the mass media by a flood of advertising that the consumer must
spend a lot of time picking through in order not to be embarrassed
when Joe Shmoe down the block informs him that he paid too much
for his whimmy-diddle and could have gotten it cheaper down the
street.  How ludicrous!!

We have at our disposal an electronic medium which, among many other
more important things, may be used to partially turn that tide in our
small corner of the world.  Simply tell the world of advertisers who
read the net (and their friends who read it) what YOU WANT, and
make THEM do the reading and filtering for a change and seek out the
buyers, rather than you seeking out the best seller from a mass of
garbage.

NO MORE UNSOLICITED ADS ON THE NET!!!!!  (With the exceptions mentioned
by Andy earlier -- one-time anouncements of services of general
interest),
-- 

The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3814 (Cornet 291)
alias: Curtis Jackson	...![ floyd sb1 mhuxv ]!burl!rcj