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From: jdc@crab.xinside.com (Jeremy Chatfield)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Commercial postings?
Date: 19 Nov 1994 21:09:15 GMT
Organization: X Inside Incorporated
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Summary: What is the right (and best) place for a commercial posting.
Keywords: Commercial, X Server, BSD
Good folks, your advice, please.
We have a commercial product. We have found routes to advertise the
product to Linux users (comp.os.linux.announce & The Linux Journal,
with the COLA stuff being archived - very helpful). We have a route
to reach FreeBSD users (the freebsd-announce@freebsd.org mailing list).
We also have advertising channels for all the commercial UNIX
implementations we reach (bsdi-users@bsdi.com/info.bsdi.users and the
various computer journals that we advertise in, and their mailing
lists).
I have no idea where I can post or advertise to reach NetBSD users.
Totally clueless. The NetBSD.org mailing lists seem to be oriented
to non-commercial software, as is comp.os.386bsd.announce. Your
helpful recommendations are welcome.
Yes, we are considering support for NetBSD 1.0, perhaps in our Release
1.2, if all goes well. However, *before* we port, test and support, I
need to know if there is an acceptable place to post or mail or even
to consider paying for an ad in a journal or magazine that is widely
read by NetBSD users.
As a commercial product, it is important to us that we reach enough
users to justify the effort. Without an acceptable place to advertise,
we are unlikely to recoup our development costs - we have many other
projects we could do, where we are assured of recouping the cost, so
this is no small obstacle for us.
Ideally, the location would be structured like the Linux COLA. We
get both an immediate response from a posting there, and responses
from people browsing the archives. The archives are frequently
referenced by the moderator, so that newbies or the forgetful know
where to look.
My apologies if this posting offends - I know that many of you
believe that the whole com.os.386bsd area is devoted to free software,
or at least, free applications. If this is not the right area,
you'll never see me here again - or at least, not with a product ;-)
Cheers, JeremyC.
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Jeremy Chatfield, +1(303)470-5302, FAX:+1(303)470-5513, email:jdc@xinside.com
X Inside Inc, P O Box 10774, Golden, CO 80401-0610, USA.
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Jeremy Chatfield, +1(303)470-5302, FAX:+1(303)470-5513, email:jdc@xinside.com
X Inside Inc, P O Box 10774, Golden, CO 80401-0610, USA.
X Inside Inc email lists: send message 'help' to majordomo@xinside.com