Re: Can we call off this advertising before it gets out of hand?

In article <ASR.93Oct7164845_at_yawl.cis.ufl.edu> asr_at_yawl.cis.ufl.edu (Allen S. Rout) writes:
>-=> <dgh> == David Harrington

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>dgh> Believe me, no company is going to get the payback necessary to stay in
>dgh> business by relying on the net as a sales channel. The "ads" you see
>dgh> are posted by (usually technical as opposed to sales) employees of the
>dgh> company.
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>Yes.. but a lot of readers could be irritated out of reading a group because
>of a preponderance of ads there. This would then be bad for all of us who
>like to share and get information here.

You missed the point. I can't remember seeing pure ads on the net. What you are referring to as ads are really usually responses to some thread of discussion that contain information relevant to the topic. It just happens that the poster thinks that a particular product will solve the probblem or add value to the issue. This is not advertising, and is germaine. I say this forum can support these types of postings.

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>Look at it this way: would you appreciate it if someone continually posted
>erotic GIFs here? ( hmmm... maybe you would :)
>

Maybe... but I don't have a GIF reader :-(

>Or, say, lots of information on Youraba language teaching? Or quilting
>information?
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I might, if I wanted to learn Youraba.

Obviously, quilting would be out of place.

>Ads are similarly out of the scope of this discussion.
>

Huh? I thought we were talking about ads.

>Testimonials, critiques, etc. are a different matter.
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>-Allen

David Received on Fri Oct 08 1993 - 17:59:34 CET