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Subject: Re: Moderation: Deleted thread

Author: Alvaro Polo

Date: 03:45:45 01/30/00

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On January 30, 2000 at 01:25:31, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On January 29, 2000 at 21:40:53, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>The only thing I think you did wrong was taking too long to delete that garbage!
>> Commercial advertising here is not allowed and Anti-Commercials should also not
>>be allowed.  If there is a real problem with a program, then discussing it here
>>to put out the word should be OK but to just shoot it down with no real
>>substance or concrete complaint should be zapped immediately.  I'm glad you did.
>
>As far as I know this place isn't violently anti-commercial.  The charter says
>"flagrant commercial exhortations".  That's a pretty high standard in my
>opinion.
>
>In any case I don't think this applies.  If your reason was the only reason not
>to allow people to do this stuff, then it would be OK to do it to Crafty, and
>it's shouldn't be.
>
>bruce

Perhaps I am missing something, but I believe that this (ie. "Don't buy Crafty,
it sucks!") couldn't be done to Crafty since Crafty cannot be bought.

Anti-commercial posts are commercial posts because they try to modify the
natural amount of sales of a program, for the upper or for the lower side, the
direction just being a detail.

Alvaro



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