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From: as@castle.ed.ac.uk (A Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: FOR SALE = THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SENT
Keywords: atari st sale do not rage
Message-ID: <763@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 19 Oct 89 10:39:02 GMT
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Reply-To: as@castle.ed.ac.uk (A Stevens)
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Once is annoying, 5 or 6 times in a few months is TOO MUCH.

(1)	Some people have to pay for their news feeds =>
sending Ads outside the appropriate news groups is unsolicited junk mail
that costs the *reciever* money.   You wouldn't FAX it to some-one
don't stick it in a non-ads newsgroup.

(2)	IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO RESTRICT DISTRIBUTION TO THE BIT OF
THE WORLD WHERE THE PRICE IS IN LEGAL TENDER - DON'T SEND.

Long-distance bandwidth is limited and also costs money.   Junk mail
makes funding agencies twitchy.   An Ad for  North American ST (the
vast majority of offenders I'm afraid) is about as useful in Europe,
Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, Venezuela, ... as an Ad for a spare
left-hand drive Haggis outside Scotland.

The bandwidth wastage is amplified by the stream of frustrated
complaints :-(

	Come on folk, lets have some consideration round here,
USENET is what it is precisely because ``net'' = ``the world''
rather than ``my backyard''.


	Andrew Stevens