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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!news.Stanford.EDU!leland!not-for-mail From: dphill@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dean M. Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Commercial postings? Date: 20 Nov 1994 13:51:07 -0800 Organization: Stanford University Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3aogcb$ib@deanstoy.Stanford.EDU> References: <3alphr$8aa@potogold.rmii.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deanstoy.stanford.edu Summary: What about the Software list? Keywords: Commercial, X Server, BSD In article <3alphr$8aa@potogold.rmii.com>, Jeremy Chatfield <jdc@crab.xinside.com> wrote: >Good folks, your advice, please. > >We have a commercial product. [snip] >I have no idea where I can post or advertise to reach NetBSD users. >Totally clueless. What about the Ported Software List which appears every so often in comp.os.386bsd.announce? The third section is devoted to commercial products. This sounds like the logical place for the on-going adver- tisement of your product. The Ported Software List is maintained by Josef Grosch <joeg@wwa.com> As far as comp.os.386bsd.announce itself, I would suggest doing this exactly once per product. These announcements should be brief, to the point, and free of hype. I think we should be conservative in setting precedents. With one or two companies selling things for *BSD, monthly announcements in c.o.3.announce are not a problem, but when there are more... Thats my .02 Dean -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dean M. Phillips PGP key available on request dean@deanstoy.wa.com TEMPORARY ADDRESS: dphill@leland.stanford.edu Sept. 23 through Dec 16 ONLY