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Tracey Baker <tab@pa*.co*> wrote:
>If anyone thought the TDI announcement was inappropriate for
>this list, I apologize.  I suggested to John that it might be
>of interest here, and I did the actual posting.
>
>Personally, I hope to continue seeing announcements such as this,
>the rebreather forum that was publicized here recently, and any
>other new products or services that might be useful to me.  I
>agree that there is a big difference between "news" and advertising
>hype; I felt that the TDI announcement fell into the former
>category, so I posted it verbatim rather than trying to paraphrase.

You don't need to apologize to me, and hopefully not to a lot of other
readers here; the TDI announcement was interesting and informative, as
have Mr. Crea's other recent postings.

I note that the author of the original flame has contributed nothing else
to the Techdiver list within the last 161 messages.

Some time ago I watched the philistines in comp.dcom.modems chase somebody
away because he was posting from telebit.com and therefore had a
commercial interest in the modem business, never mind that he had posted
some useful factual information to the group in response to somebody's
question.  If you allow useful information to get posted to Usenet, it
might (horror of horrors) stop people from posting "I don't know for sure,
but..." and "I think that..." messages.  I don't read that group anymore.

A number of my diving friends are in the commercial side of diving, and
would probably love to sell me new gear.  I happen to respect these
people's opinions about gear and about diving more than I do most people's
opinions, because they know what they're talking about.  On the other
hand, they don't shove new gear down my throat.  When/if I need and can
afford something, I'll know where to get it.  Let's maybe try to keep the
list like that, and not be too quick to shoot anyone to maintain the
NSFNET purity standards.
-- 
Anthony DeBoer             A: "The Net goes right around the world."
adb@he*.re*.or*   B: "Wouldn't want to haul them buggers in on a
uunet!geac!herboid!adb      cold Sunday in February!"
                           -- CBC Air Farce explaining Internet to fishermen

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