dee@cca.UUCP (07/01/83)
"Advertising" is not well defined. Sure you can draw a line but you can draw lots of them in lots of places. No two people would come up with the same judgements of what is "advertising" and what are one time announcements of "general interest". Maybe a consensus could be arrived at by usenet veterans but with sites being added and user turnover, there would always be lots of violations. Having a policy maybe be better than explicitly not having a policy but consider how much mail is generate ranting and raving about violations of any formal or informal policy or suggesting changes to it. The only solution is good message filtering. Donald Eastlake dee@cca, decvax!cca!dee
ira@teltone.UUCP (07/14/83)
How about a net.newprod group to keep new press releases (that way the volume could easily be monitored and the service removed if abused).