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From att!cup.portal.com!Carol_B_Shaw Wed May 15 13:32:15 PDT 1991
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Subject: Re: cryonics #331 - Re: Trans Time Cryomedical Sale Nets Profit
Date: Wed, 15 May 91 13:32:15 PDT
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LEVY% (Simon Levy) writes:

>(2) If you (Steve) use a network to promote Alcor, you're inviting
>    people to become members of an organization that is not run for
>    profit.  If Art Quaife promotes Trans Time this way, he's 
>    advertising for a corporation.  Color me ignorant, but I can't
>    believe it's kosher to use a publically-supported medium to sell
>    your wares, be they cryonics or cat food.  If we're going to 
>    maintain the for-profit/not-for-profit distinction, everyone
>    is going to have to play fair.  
>

Commercial announcements are not totally prohibited.  I dug up the 
following in my system's documentation (portal) about making product 
announcements on USENET:

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5.4.  Be extra careful with announcements of products or services

     When writing a product or service announcement, bear in mind
that  others  will be paying most of the telephone bills.  So, if
you are announcing several things, combine all the  announcements
into  one  article.  Mark the posting as a product or service an-
nouncement in the title in the "Subject" field.  Advertising  hy-
perbole  is  not appropriate here; remember that your audience is
to a large degree technically literate,  and  your  product  will
stand or fall on its technical merits.  Be aware that posting ob-
noxious or inappropriate advertisements is very  serious  and  if
you  do  it,  you may find your neighbors yanking your USENET ac-
cess.

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So far I haven't found anything on which groups it might be appropriate to 
post announcements to.  I would be interested in more information on this 
because I want to post a product announcement elsewhere on a topic totally 
unrelated to cryonics.

Anyway, I say let Art Quaife speak.

	Carol Shaw, suspension member of Alcor Life Extension Foundation
	

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