In a previous article, "Jay Honeck" said:
In general, is it OK to recommend an aviation product (that I have found
very helpful) in a newsgroup?

There is a rec.aviation.products newsgroup specifically for that purpose.

True, but it depends on the product. The .product group doesn't get a lot
of traffic, and -- if it's something we all could use -- why not bring it up
here?

With that attitude, why have newsgroups at all? Why not just have one
called "misc" and have everybody post there? That way everybody will see
it.

Generally the best way to go about this in the .piloting group is to pose it
as a question, like "What do you guys think of 'x' product?"

Oh yeah, there's nothing I like better than some guy who coincidentally
has the same name as the president of a company posting from that
company's domain name saying "I just discovered foo and I think it's
great". Of all the dozens of newsgroups I read, the piloting groups are
the *most* prone to that sort of dishonesty, and I don't know why.


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