[39830] in Cypherpunks
Re: Netscape closes up 1 3/8 today!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sameer)
Fri Sep 22 00:15:44 1995
From: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
To: dmandl@panix.com (David Mandl)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 21:08:26 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: sameer@c2.org, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <v01530503ac87c0c951e6@[166.84.250.21]> from "David Mandl" at Sep 21, 95 09:30:51 pm
> At 1:30 PM 9/21/95, sameer wrote:
> > The only bad publicity is no publicity.
>
> This assumes that you're trying to sell something. Some people actually
> have no use or desire for publicity. Publicity has caused a quick and
> painful death to many scenes, movements, cabals, and "temporary autonomous
> zones."
Yes, this is a good point. If you are trying to sell
something, then, the only bad publicity is no publicity. But you are
describing cases where -any- publicity is detrimental to the "thing",
in which case the publicity, "bad" or "good", is "bad".
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