keithe (12/07/82)
Hey folks! It would just about take a miracle for anyone on the west coast to end up purchasing a car from someone on the east coast (or vice versa), and advertising your super-duper set-of-wheels on net.auto isn't the miracle you're looking for. For crying out loud (a euphamism for "flame on"?), KEEP YOUR STUPID USED CAR ADS ON YOUR OWN MACHINES. Or form a more local news distribution and keep them off this (inter)national net. Unless the particular car is worth over $10,000 or so it just doesn't deserve getting advertised on this medium. All you do is waste our time, and our companies' money paying for telephone charges to route this stuff around from machine to machine! (Maybe that's why so many of the ads come from Bell Labs?) Now that I've got that off my chest (you can read that as "flame off"), anybody want a good deal on a '68 2-door AMC Rebel, with 127,000 miles, limited body damage, low-leak radiator, almost-new second-hand junk-yard battery, AM/FM radio, and burning less than 1&1/2 quarts of oil per 500 miles? Or will trade for working 1200 baud auto-dial, originate/receive modem. (Well, as long as I was posting a message anyway...) Keith Ericson Teklabs
smb (12/16/82)
Curiously enough, the idea of posting car ads to the net was a major
discussion point when netnews was being designed. The first version
(never publicly released) had group NETWORK; that was the only one that
was broadcast. Since that was clearly inadequate, I implemented one that
had a list of network newsgroups that were to be sent to all neighboring
nodes. But Jim Ellis (now mcnc!jte) pointed out that the whole country
didn't need to see used car notices from just one region, so we adopted
the current hierarchical scheme instead....
--Steve Bellovin
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