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A friend of mine who does not have access to the net ask me to post the following UNIX QUESTION. Would anybody like to purchase the following terminals? E-mail your best offer. Agreed price will be F.O.B. Montreal. MAKE MODEL QTY AMOUNT ================================ UNISYS SVT1120 51 ?? UNISYS SVT1121 17 ?? UNISYS UTS20W 94 ?? UNISYS UTS30W 114 ?? -- Phillips Consulting Group, Inc. | John E. Phillips P.O. Box 903 |--------------------------------------- Montreal, PQ H3C 2V8 | Local : jep FAX (514)932-8167 | Remote: jep@pcgbase.UUCP
darrell@eeocdt.UUCP (Darrell Tschakert) (02/18/91)
In article <1391@pcgbase.UUCP> jep@pcgbase.UUCP (Have a nice day!) writes: >A friend of mine who does not have access to the net ask me to >post the following UNIX QUESTION. > >Would anybody like to purchase the following terminals? > >E-mail your best offer. Agreed price will be F.O.B. Montreal. > >MAKE MODEL QTY AMOUNT I am fairly new on this net and, as such, am still unclear on some of the protocols. Perhaps an oldtimer would help me on this one. The question is this: "Is this the appropriate newsgroup for selling hardware?". I guess it was a "UNIX QUESTION". But still I wander ... . When I tried to respond from rn with the 'F' option, I got an error. I assume that this was do to the way the message was posted. The Newsgroup was filled in as follows: "Newsgroups: poster". Do people often use "poster" as their entry for Newsgroup? If so can anyone tell me why? Thanx. >> Darrell Tschakert >> Phone: >> >> Equal Employment Opportunity Commision >> (202) 663-4436 >> >> 1801 L Street N.W. >> Email to >> >> Washington D.C. 20507 >> uunet!eeocdt!darrell >>
gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) (02/19/91)
In article <129@eeocdt.UUCP> darrell@eeocdt.UUCP (Darrell Tschakert) writes: >The question is this: "Is this the appropriate newsgroup for selling >hardware?". No, it certainly is not appropriate to attempt to exploit the technical newsgroups (many of which, like this one, are gatewayed with the DoD Internet) for blatantly commercial purposes. It is also ethically unacceptable since it forces everybody else to involuntarily bear the financial burden. However, there are always some turkeys who simply don't wish to cooperate, and it's difficult to force them to. >The Newsgroup was filled in as follows: "Newsgroups: poster". I understand that some news-interface software understands that convention. I know that the software the I use does not.