richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (03/07/89)
(from news.groups) In article <7459@polya.Stanford.EDU> lipa@polya.Stanford.EDU (William J. Lipa) writes: >In article <4206@wiley.UUCP> david@wiley.UUCP (David Hull) writes: >>I, too, wish that people wouldn't post for-sale items to comp.sys.mac. > >Me too. Most of the time when I read comp.sys.mac I am not interested in >seeing endless streams of advertisements. > >However, I can see that these messages provide a valuable service to the >buyers and sellers of used Mac-related products. It seems to me that a >reasonable solution would be to create a new group for this purpose, called >(for example) misc.forsale.mac. Duh. Did it ever occur to your pea sized monochrome minds that misc.forsale might be a good place to advertise a computer for sale, or that misc.wanted might be a nifty place to post a request asking if anybody had a system they might want to sell. And *of course* perpetuate the long standing USENET tradition and post your articles to both at the same time. >[Note followup to news.groups] Note follow-up to hell. -- Memory parity error. Abort, retry or ignore ? richard@gryphon.COM decwrl!gryphon!richard gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.NASA.GOV
jyenr@ut-emx.UUCP (03/08/89)
In article <12993@gryphon.COM>, richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: > (from news.groups) > Did it ever occur to your pea sized monochrome minds that > misc.forsale might be a good place to advertise a computer > for sale, or that misc.wanted might be a nifty place to post > a request asking if anybody had a system they might want to sell. > And did it occur to you that selling *Macintosh* computers and related equipment on comp.sys.*mac* might be a good idea? Advertise to your market, you know? Please, ease off on the flaming -- although 'pea-sized monochrome minds' is something I hadn't seen before. John Yen (jyenr@emx.cc.utexas.edu)