Re: Ads posing as FAQs?

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Strike that. Reverse it.

> rec.running recently. It was supposed to be about energy foods,
> but it turned out to be a shameless plug about Access bars
> (kinda like PowerBars). What is your opinion on the posting of
> such FAQs, and is there any way to discourage them?

Aside from trademarking "FAQ" or cancelling such articles (neither of
which I predict would go over very well with the net.community) there is
very little you can do to discourage them.

You could post a followup article saying "The preceding was a commercial
advertisement..." every time the fake FAQ is posted. *Or* you could
assume that if you were smart enough to recognize that it was a "shameless
plug," then other readers of the newsgroup would also recognize it.

-- 
Matt Messina
messina@umich.edu

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