as@castle.ed.ac.uk (A Stevens) (10/19/89)
Once is annoying, 5 or 6 times in a few months is TOO MUCH. (1) Some people have to pay for their news feeds => sending Ads outside the appropriate news groups is unsolicited junk mail that costs the *reciever* money. You wouldn't FAX it to some-one don't stick it in a non-ads newsgroup. (2) IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO RESTRICT DISTRIBUTION TO THE BIT OF THE WORLD WHERE THE PRICE IS IN LEGAL TENDER - DON'T SEND. Long-distance bandwidth is limited and also costs money. Junk mail makes funding agencies twitchy. An Ad for North American ST (the vast majority of offenders I'm afraid) is about as useful in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, Venezuela, ... as an Ad for a spare left-hand drive Haggis outside Scotland. The bandwidth wastage is amplified by the stream of frustrated complaints :-( Come on folk, lets have some consideration round here, USENET is what it is precisely because ``net'' = ``the world'' rather than ``my backyard''. Andrew Stevens
neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) (10/20/89)
In article <763@castle.ed.ac.uk> as@castle.ed.ac.uk (A Stevens) writes: > ... as an Ad for a spare left-hand drive Haggis outside Scotland. Actually Both hands can be used on any haggis. It is only which way round the hill you are travelling that dictates which hand you use. :-) * 10^3 and sorry about the bandwidth. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ! DISCLAIMER: Unless otherwise stated, the above comments are entirely joking ! ! ! ! Neil Forsyth JANET: neil@uk.ac.hw.cs ! ! Dept. of Computer Science ARPA: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk ! ! Heriot-Watt University UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!neil ! ! Edinburgh, Scotland, UK "spam spaM spAM sPAM SPAM, lovely SPAM" ! +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+