Advertising on Usenet FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions about Advertising on Usenet: How To Do It, How Not To Do It.
This FAQ about Advertising on Usenet: How To Do It, How Not To Do It was compiled and written by Joel K. Furr jfurr@acpub.duke.edu .
01 Introduction (Advertising on Usenet)- Advertising on Usenet is a frequently misunderstood subject. The ...
- 02 The philosophy of Usenet
- Usenet started out in 1980 as a UNIX network linking sites which needed ...
- 03 An analogy (Advertising on Usenet)
- If an analogy will help you to visualize the situation, imagine a ...
- 04 The hidden cost (Advertising on Usenet)
- One of the things that attracts some people to the idea of advertising ...
- 05 The on-topic notice (Advertising on Usenet)
- If you have a product or a message that is specifically related to ...
- 06 .forsale and .marketplace newsgroups (Advertising on Usenet)
- There are many newsgroups directly involved in selling. You can ...
- 07 comp.newprod (Advertising on Usenet)
- If and only if you are with a computer company which is releasing a ...
- 08 biz. (Advertising on Usenet)
- There is a hierarchy of newsgroups called biz.* which exists mainly ...
- 09 .signature advertisements (Advertising on Usenet)
- A .signature is a mini-file that is automatically appended (stuck at ...
- 10 Posting off-topic messages in unrelated newsgroups (How not to advertise on Usenet)
- Each message you post to Usenet, regardless of its content, should only ...
- 11 Spamming (How not to advertise on Usenet)
- Spamming is defined as posting identical or nearly-identical messages (...
- 12 Unsolicited junk email (How not to advertise on Usenet)
- Another often-practiced and often-punished scheme is to send email ...
- 13 'Mail-Merged' ads (How not to advertise on Usenet)
- Some advertisers noticed that it was only *identical* postings that ...
- 15 Afterword: Advertising on the Internet
- It should be noted that there are many ways to advertise on the ...
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