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News or Advertising
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Public-Access Computer Systems For)
Thu May 7 09:34:53 1992
Date: Thu, 7 May 1992 08:30:34 CDT
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2 Messages, 48 Lines
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From: HICKEY@ITHACA.BITNET
Subject: Re: RLG--News or Advertising
Re comments on costs of publicity brochures. Does this use of
e-mail by RLIN indicate their premier position in use of hi-tech,
or possible financial problems & recognition of financial
realities? I personally prefer to receive promotional material
by e-mail, rather than by junk mail; it's easier to dispose of
the results if unwanted. Overall, I find RLIN's use of the wires
to tout their projects helpful.
Probably the first use of serious graphic interfaces will be to
prepare the e-equivalent of multi-part 4-color brochures,
including the letter from company president w/personal offer.
Shudder...
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Subject: Re: Appropriate News
From: nelson@Mayo.EDU
"A.J. Wright" <MEDS002@UABDPO> writes:
>Well, I'm as sorry as I can be, but such blurbs as the "RLG News" etc. are not
>considered junk mail by all of us out here. Perhaps the objectors to this sort
>of thing can suggest a suitable alternative for this type of information for
>those of us with politically incorrect viewpoints.
Which prompts this snappy rejoinder from JBYRNE@AISH.llnl.gov:
>There is a mechanism in place for this kind of information and they
>are very happy to distribute it - the U.S. Postal Service.
Now I say:
I agree with A.J. Wright; your valuable information is nothing more
than my trash in many cases. But let ME decide the value. As to the
barb that JBYRNE has felt obligated to fling, I would rather get my
junk mail in electronic format, than continue the deforestation
required to deliver it in DEAD-TREE format. Too bad JBYRNE hasn't
realized the consequences of delivering junk mail in
less-environmentally sound methods, or can we be assured that it is all
properly recycled.
Steve Nelson Research Computer Facility
nelson@mayo.edu Mayo Clinic - Rochester MN
