OK, then why not let the Usenet folks police it. Since, apparently, most of
us are not bothered by these postings, most of which are, arguably,
informational anyway, if the "owners" of the medium choose to ignore them,
so might we. I doubt that this will result in a flood of commercial posts
from our vendors; there just aren't that many of them (or us for that
matter).

Ray Warshaw

"T o d d P a t t i s t" wrote in message
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"Raphael Warshaw" wrote:

I think we can afford them a bit of space on this forum for
product announcements, etc..

I vote with Ray Lovinggood.

Respectfully, it's not a voting issue. We don't own the
computers used to distribute this newsgroup. Those who do
own them rely on the Usenet rule that non-commercial forums
prohibit commercial posting. Some Usenet distributors,
particularly those who allow free access, refuse to carry
groups that allow commercial posts. Those who carry this
Usenet group uniformly have Terms of Service prohibiting
commercial posting in non-commercial groups.

If one commercial poster is allowed, others who have
refrained from posting by virtue of their respect for the
rules will feel that they must make similar posts to remain
competitive.

T o d d P a t t i s t - "WH" Ventus C
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