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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
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Message-ID: <3aogcb$ib@deanstoy.Stanford.EDU>
References: <3alphr$8aa@potogold.rmii.com>
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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
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