Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!ncsu!jcz 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 Article-I.D.: ncsu.2529 Posted: Wed Mar 7 11:52:27 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Mar-84 19:19:51 EST References: <195@cepu.UUCP>, <42@infopro.UUCP> Organization: N.C. State University, Raleigh Lines: 47 ----------- 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