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From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes)
Subject: Re: Commercial postings?
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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 18:56:37 GMT
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In article <3alphr$8aa@potogold.rmii.com>,
Jeremy Chatfield <jdc@crab.xinside.com> wrote:
> We have a commercial product. [...]  I have no idea where I can
> post or advertise to reach NetBSD users.  Totally clueless.

Dean M. Phillips (dphill@leland.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
: 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.

Both excellent ideas, especially if Mr. Grosch himself adds products
from .announce to the PSL.  This goes equally for FreeBSD, of course.


	Wes Peters