Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: CD-ROM Access From: kirk.jensen@spacebbs.com (Kirk Jensen) Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!iserver.spacebbs.com!spacebbs!kirk.jensen Distribution: world Message-ID: <6.11836.1188.0NAE8A59@spacebbs.com> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 94 15:11:00 -0800 Organization: Space BBS - 15 nodes - v.32bis - (415-323-4193) Lines: 61 MR>Message-ID: <2kq6th$ke1@nuscc.nus.sg> MR>Newsgroup: alt.cd-rom MR>Organization: National University of Singapore MR> MR>Scott A. May (smay01@BIGCAT.MISSOURI.EDU) wrote: MR>: On Thu, 24 Feb 1994, Kirk Jensen wrote: MR> MR>: > ****** CD-ROM ACCESS ****** MR>: > MR>: > We stock over 500 top-quality CD-ROM titles, including all the latest MR>: > products, blah blah blah.... MR> MR>: My god, we can't even escape commercials on the Internet. Just a matter of MR>: time? I think we should all boycott anyone who advertises here. This is MR>: not a free corkboard at the neighborhood grocer. If you want to advertise, MR>: buy your space on Computer Shopper or your local penny saver. MR> MR> MR>Oh give me a break... advertising in this group has been going on for MR>months now and you decide to wait until _now_ to complain?? MR> MR>FYI, KirkJensen/CDROMAccess has on several previous occasions clearly MR>stated his aversion to using the Net to advertise commercially. However, MR>over the last few months numerous companies have obviously decided that MR>the Net and this group in particular is "fair game" for advertising - MR>some have even posted their ENTIRE product list here. I don't see that MR>you can complain about Kirk "going with the flow". MR> MR>:) MR> MR>** flame off (gee was it on in the first place?) MR> MR>Moo MR> MR> MR>PS: CDROM Access has given me (and many others - as I've read here...) MR> excellent customer service. I recommend them to anyone looking for MR> a reliable source for CDROMs. And no, I am in no way related to them MR> nor do I have any form of financial or commercial interest in them blah MR> blah blah. MR> MR>PPS: I don't agree or disagree with the use of the Net as an advertising MR> medium. IMO, it serves a purpose - the same way commercials on the TV MR> and radio do. Besides, what's so difficult about pressing the "K" MR> button or whatever to skip the post? Maybe we should have all adverts MR> preceded by a [ADVERT] bracket so you can setup a kill file ;) I am certainly remiss in not reading some downloaded mail packets for a few weeks back. Your message was very nice; in fact, it is one of the nicest ones I've seen in well over a year on this Net. Thanks very much for sending it. I'm very sorry not to have sent you a message earlier, but it seemed that I never had time to read the "old mail" unless it had my name on it. Now that my new price list is done, I have a bit of time to look at it and now realize that I should have done so a lot earlier . Have a great day. I wish there were a lot more people like you around :-). --- þ KingQWK 1.05 # 141 þ CD-ROM Access (415) 941-2400 FAX: (415) 941-4900