From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jul 2 12:07:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA01234 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 12:07:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoo.toronto.edu (zoo.toronto.edu [128.100.72.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA01206 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 12:07:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 15:06:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Henry Spencer Subject: Re: Ethernet Bandwidth Manager To: bbecker@flubber.futurecomm.com cc: Dennis , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > You have a point, but i think he does too. The posting looked to me to be > more of a sales-pitch than anything else. Ad copy doesn't belong in here, > does it? Even the BSDI notes about new versions that you see here, don't > sound like a straw-hat-and-cane routine... I'd say Bill has put his finger on the crux of the issue. A brief note saying "we've got XXX available now, contact us for more info" is not out of place, provided XXX really is new in some way (not just the tenth or hundredth near-identical commodity product) and is of interest to this particular community. But posting ad copy or a press release to the list is inappropriate -- the hype/facts ratio is too poor. Unless the product is something *really* unusual which has to be explained in detail -- bearing in mind that the audience here is techies -- such a note should fit in one paragraph. Henry Spencer henry@zoo.toronto.edu