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From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti)
Subject: Re: WAN Bridge/Router over Fractional T1 (64K)
In-Reply-To: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com's message of 7 Apr 91 20:13:56 GMT
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	<11659@cpoint.clearpoint.com> <95891@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1991 23:03:27 GMT

In article <95891@sgi.sgi.com> vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:

   Was I wrong in finding the Clearpoint article past the edge of
   non-commericalism?  

Yes.  The Clearpoint article was informative, and provided an
appropriate amount of detail to the reader to determine whether the
product was interesting or not.  It would not have been an appropriate
article in comp.sys.sgi, but in comp.dcom.lans it was quite
reasonable.   

In particular it let me determine what the Clearpoint product was not
going to be interesting in the short to medium term because it did not
support the point to point protocol (ppp), and that is a primary
requirement for routers/bridges that I am now evaluating.

   Would it be wrong to ask that such lead chasing be
   conducted by email, with summaries to the net by the original requester?

It was not clear that this was lead chasing, any more that it would be
lead chasing for you to mention that SGI boxes do real fast FDDI in a
group that sometimes discussed FDDI.  If this were a mailing list with
a set policy of encouraging summaires to the list (e.g. sun-managers),
then the posting would have been inappropriate; but this is
comp.dcom.lans, and in this group there's plenty of discussion.

   Would it be too much to ask that such product announcements be concise
   enough to fit on a single 80-line screen?

Product announcements are traditionally confined to comp.newprod,
though some vendors do have their own newsgroups (e.g.
comp.dcom.lans.cisco) on which new products are mentioned.  I'm quite
sure that SGI products are discussed by SGI people on comp.sys.sgi.  

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