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Author Re: Does TomTom, as a company, know about something called Usenet?
Ramon F Herrera

2007-01-21, 4:33 am


Jack Erbes wrote:
> Ramon F Herrera wrote:
>
> Usenet newsgroups are public forums, anyone can start one. The fact
> that there is not one does not place the onus on Tom Tom to start one.
> They cannot use it it for business purposes so if Tom Tom wants to start
> a forum they would have to start a private forum.
>


Jack:

You are some 15 years late with the business purpose rule. Besides, the
non-commercial limitation was imposed on the Internet, never on Usenet.
Would you say that the following groups had absolutely no relationship
with the corresponding company?

comp.databases.oracle.*
comp.dcom.sys.cisco
(and a very long etcetera).

And even:

borland.*.*..
microsoft.*.*..

The newsgroup I am proposing (too bad I don't run newsgroup servers
anymore, or I would create it myself) is alt.satellite.gps.tomtom. Are
you saying that the newsgroup in question wouldn't be in the interest
of TomTom Corp's business? Are you saying that a TomTom techie is
forbidden from creating it?

Additionally, the alt.* hierarchy is devoid of the rules imposed on the
traditional ones.

-Ramon

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