Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!mintaka!oliveb!amiga!cbmvax!cbmehq!gunda From: gunda@cbmehq.UUCP (Gunda O'Neal ESCO) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: comp.sys.amiga.marketing Message-ID: <601@cbmehq.UUCP> Date: 12 Apr 90 08:59:33 GMT References: <9003280243.AA27930@jade.berkeley.edu> <955@sjfc.UUCP> Reply-To: gunda@cbmehq.UUCP (Gunda O'Neal ESCO) Organization: Commodore ESCO (European Support & Coordination Office) Lines: 33 In article portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes: >>>>>> On 3 Apr 90 02:31:12 GMT, bpv9073@sjfc.UUCP (Brett VanSprewenburg) said: > >> Don't go for the new group yet. Many people complain about not being >> able to read c.s.a.hardware. The same fate would probably befall another >> new Amiga newsgroup. > >A better reason for not creating comp.sys.amiga.marketing is that the >discussion doesn't justify the newsgroup. 90% of the people who think >they know how Commodore should market their machines haven't a day's >worth of experience working in the computer industry, and hence don't >know what they're talking about. I see no reason to give them a >newsgroup so they can waste net bandwidth proving how little they >really know. Furthermore, I wish they would shut up so as to pave the >way for productive postings in this newsgroup. But the good thing about such a group would be, that those who are writing crap and unqualified stuff would (hopefully) than use that group and not post wherever they can. First thing than I would do is, to "u" this new group. > > > --M >-- >__ >\/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics, Inc. portuesi@sgi.com -- Gunda O'Neal, Assistant Commodore European Support & Coordination Office (ESCO) UUCP: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmehq!gunda "I am easy to please, as long as things go my way ..."