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From: gbc@cahaba.med.unc.edu (Geoff Crooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: No "FOR SALE" Postings Here
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Date: 26 Mar 90 22:44:41 GMT
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In article <1763@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> delaney@xn (John R. Delaney) writes:
>Please do not post "For Sale" messages to this group (or
>comp.sys.mac.hardware or comp.sys.mac.programmer). There are local and
>national *.forsale groups expressly for that purpose.

I for one *like* seeing Mac related items listed for sale here.  For one,
our system does not get any of the misc groups (where forsale/wanted are)
and I'm sure many other systems do not get these groups as well.  Second,
if you have looked at misc.forsale recently, to find the one or two mac
related items for sale there, you must wade through a bazillion IBM and
Car and Iguana and House for sale messages.  Lastly, if someone is selling
software/hardware at a real bargain basement price, many people who aren't
necessarily *looking* for said items may in fact decide they are
interested, and would not have seen the posting were it in misc.forsale or
elsewhere.  Personally, when I have an item I want to list for sale, I
list it locally first, then go national.  Although I have not listed an
item for sale in any of the mac groups, I would not hesitate to do so if
I had items for sale which I thought would be of interest to the mac
community... in fact, quite the converse, I've been scanning the mac
groups the past few weeks just *looking* for used internal HD's.  Since
there is talk of reorganizing comp.sys.mac, perhaps we might consider a
comp.sys.mac.forsale group.. this would make everybody happy, as this
would go to those systems which don't subscribe to the misc groups.  Just
a thought...
Geoff.


* Geoff Crooks                "She told me to make myself comfortable    *
* Dept of Psychology           so I pulled down my pants and sat in the  *
* Univ. of No. Carolina        pudding..."  Emo Phillips                 *
* gbc@med.unc.edu                                                        *