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On Wed, 29 Mar 1995, jim w stephens wrote:

> In article <199503282004.PAA10989@athens.emi.net>,
> bill walter  wrote:
> >I am interested in your service...
> >Where do I get info???? 
> 
> If this is from an Email message you recieved, I would complain
> about it to the staff.  This was unsolicited by anyone on world,
> and should be discouraged.  It is advertising that you will pay
> for in the form of world being unable to do your work because
> it is moving all the advertising crap for these sorts.

Calm down Jim, this was a targeted bit of information which hit
it's target.  There is a big difference between "spamming" (hitting
every newsgroup and mailing list with a "green card" offer) and
generating conversation relevant to the group which happens to include
marketing information.

The down side is that you may get "Tried it, it was rotten" feedback
to a list of 4000 readers.  On the other hand you might get a glowing
testimonial or two as well.  Newsgroups and Mailing Lists are a very
powerful marketing and market research tool.

> Jim Stephens    jws@world.std.com                Irvine, Ca
> url  ftp://www.std.com/pub/jws/jws.html

From rballard@cnj.digex.net Wed Apr  5 18:55:56 1995
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