rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) (10/26/89)
I think someone should send out a rmgroup for na.forsale. My reasons: 1. Most of the net doesn't believe in it. 2. UUNET doesn't believe in it: uunet% grep forsale /usr/spool/news-lib/active ba.forsale 0000153 0000139 y dc.forsale 0000069 0000057 y dfw.forsale 0000011 0000010 y ga.forsale 0000157 0000155 y misc.forsale 0013723 0011604 y ne.forsale 0001318 0001218 y or.forsale 0000242 0000234 y aus.forsale 0000011 0000001 y uunet% 3. There are no other "na" groups. 4. It's primarily a distribution, not a hierarchy. Comments? /rich $alz -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net. Use a domain-based address or give alternate paths, or you may lose out.
mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard) (10/26/89)
rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes: >I think someone should send out a rmgroup for na.forsale. [...] >It's primarily a distribution, not a hierarchy. > >Comments? But how's Japan gonna finish buying it if they don't have a way to find out what parts of it are for sale? :-) Wayne("It's not a group name, it's a statement for the '90s."); -- unsigned *Wayne_Mesard(); "[Y]ou seem to have an accute hostility Mesard@BBN.COM toward the very subject of aquariums." BBN, Cambridge, MA -Oleg Kiselev, <21241@gryphon.COM>
edw@pinot.zehntel.com (Ed Wright) (10/27/89)
I, For One,
Read It
Ocassionally Post To It,
and yes by god as an article of faith I believe in it.
So There
all bs aside, I'd leave it in the system.
Ed
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KA9AHQ sun or ucbvax or varian ! zehntel!edwdg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) (10/28/89)
From article <2068@prune.bbn.com>, by rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz): > I think someone should send out a rmgroup for na.forsale. ..... > > Comments? > /rich $alz I tend to agree. For sale information is more useful on a local basis: if I'm selling a car here in Boston, then Joe User in Denver doesn't really care about it. -- dg@lakart.UUCP - David Goodenough +---+ IHS | +-+-+ ....... !harvard!xait!lakart!dg +-+-+ | AKA: dg%lakart.uucp@xait.xerox.com +---+
mark@promark.UUCP (Mark J. DeFilippis) (10/30/89)
In article <1907@zehntel.UUCP>, edw@pinot.zehntel.com (Ed Wright) writes: > I, For One, > Read It > Ocassionally Post To It, > and yes by god as an article of faith I believe in it. > all bs aside, I'd leave it in the system. > Ed I read it also. And besides whats the big deal if it has low traffic? I mean, newsgroups are like college course catalogs, aren't they? :-) They don't offer 1/3 the courses, but they put them in their anyway, in case they decide to offer them. For example, at Adelphi U. we have a listing for Hebrew art history , or something like that, as one of their offerings, but It don't exist! It may someday I am told. -- Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11530 (516) 663-1170 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science markd@adelphi.UUCP or mark@promark.UUCP UUCP: uunet!mimsy!rutgers!columbia!adelphi!markd
tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (10/31/89)
In <2235@promark.UUCP> mark@promark.UUCP (Mark J. DeFilippis) writes:
Mark> I read it also. And besides whats the big deal if it has low traffic?
The big deal is that "na" is a regional distribution category, not a
hierarchy. It has poor distribution because a lot of site admins know
this. I never even heard of this bogus group until this discussion,
though maybe I saw it in some B News documentation and forgot about it.
The group is unnecessary. A posting to misc.forsale with an "na"
distribution should accomplish the same thing. As Richard Salz
suggested in his original article, it should be removed.
Dave
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