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From: jcz@ncsu.UUCP (John Carl Zeigler)
Newsgroups: net.wanted,net.news.sa,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: RE: Re: UNIX Reference Materials --- Product Announcement By SSC
Message-ID: <2529@ncsu.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 11:52:27 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  7 11:52:27 1984
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There have been lots of discussions in the past few years about
the presence of ads on the net.

Net.wanted and net.jobs grew out of some of these discussions.

The consensus seemed to be that ads were OK, if they followed
some sort of guidelines.

I personally would not like to see ads on the net.

Some sites might have political or legal problems
with ads, but then they can just turn them off.

If you must have ads, then please let us keep them
at a civilized level.  Perhaps a sort of product
announcement type of thing.

Here are some suggestions for guidelines for ads.

	They would have to be confined to a particular group,
	they would have to meet standards of honesty,
	(remember, if it lies some flamer will probably heave napalm
	on net.general!!),
	and they would have to be rather short.

	Also, the group, (net.ads?) should be partitioned
	into types of products, i.e. net.ads.cpu,net.ads.periphs,
	net.ads.unix,net.ads.lawn-furniture, etc.

	The ad should explicitly state who is responsible for its
	contents and who can be reached where to answer questions
	about it.

	I do not think ads should contain explicit offers to sell.

What do you feel about it??

Sorry to have run on for so long.

--jcz
John Carl Zeigler
North Carolina State University