Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cepu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!whuxle!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!bmcg!cepu!scw From: scw@cepu.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix,net.wanted,net.news.sa,net.news.adm Subject: Re: UNIX Reference Materials --- Product Announcement By SSC Message-ID: <195@cepu.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Mar-84 08:33:47 EST Article-I.D.: cepu.195 Posted: Fri Mar 2 08:33:47 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Mar-84 01:47:16 EST References: <242@teltone.UUCP>, <318@dual.UUCP> <1029@cbosgd.UUCP>, <1032@cbosgd.UUCP> Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center, LA CA Lines: 48 >Personally, I get enough junk mail from lots of random sources that >I never gave my permission to sell my name for, that I don't mind >getting junk mail based on the Usenet directory. Ditto, I think. >I do want to emphasize that the purpose of the Usenet directory >is not for mailing lists ... be complete. HEAR HEAR! >Obviously, SSC or any other generator of junk mail is obligated to >remove anybody [...] we are not obligated to help them by marking >unwilling junk mail recipients in the master list. (However, if there >is sentiment that such marks would be of overall benefit to Usenet, >we may consider it.) I don't think that it's worth your effort. >What I'd like to know is: what is the sentiment >of Usenet on this issue - especially the netnews contacts to whom >such mail is directed (thus I've added net.news.adm to this list)? >Do you object to the Usenet directory (which is currently put into >the public domain each month) being used for product mailing lists? Somehow I think that some of the employers on the net won't like it. especially headhunters. >What about other things (headhunters come to mind)? Should we >include some kind of policy statement in the cover letter that >restricts the uses it can be put to? Would it do any good? I think that it'd be a real good idea to note that the net (is not for) /(should not be used for) comercial purposes. I suspect that a firm statment that violators will be removed from the net, assuming that we can/will do so (dropping their feed?) may do the trick. How about a news group for product announcments and adverts (net.adds or net.madison_ave)? That is a portion of the net that is SPECIFICLY for comercial purposes. Any discussion on this? -- Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology) uucp: { {ihnp4, uiucdcs}!bradley, hao, trwrb, sdcsvax!bmcg}!cepu!scw ARPA: cepu!scw@ucla-locus location: N 34 06'37" W 118 25'43"