Re: GEnieLamp

[fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)]

In article <1992Nov5.161837.16977@cas.org> lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:
>I agree - this is going TOO far.  I mean, the entire *.gno group is a support
>group for a commercial product.  Every comp.sys group has announcements
>about products.

Good thing the Apple II is a freeware product, or this whole group would be
considered commercial. :-)

Defining "commercial advertisement" is like defining "pornography"; you might
not be able to define it exactly, but you'll know it when you see it.  I don't
personally have a problem with GEnieLamp, but I can see why people might.

>As for making it available for ftp - since some companies have their
>whole product line av ailable for ftp, I can't see a newsletter which happens
>in a few words to mention how to get onto a service can be any thing closer
>to commercial than that.

It depends on the policy of the site in question.  Some sites get annoyed at
having commercial stuff, others have no problems with it.  There is no "no
commercial stuff" policy for the Internet; lots of businesses do work though
it (e-mail, file transfers, etc).  There are certain pieces of it which are
marked as "no commercial traffic" (I believe NSFnet is), but the Internet
is defined by the sites which are part of it, not the other way around.

>Larry W. Virden                 UUCP: osu-cis!chemabs!lvirden

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