Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: comp.sys.amiga.marketing Message-ID: <1990Apr13.162110.7806@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 13 Apr 90 16:21:10 GMT References: <9003280243.AA27930@jade.berkeley.edu> <955@sjfc.UUCP> <601@cbmehq.UUCP> Sender: news@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Daily News) Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 47 In article <601@cbmehq.UUCP> gunda@cbmehq.UUCP (Gunda O'Neal ESCO) writes: >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 ..." To Michael Portuesi, the vast majority of Americans know very little about politics, yet everyone over 18 gets to vote. Why shouldn't people who aren't marketing types get to express opinions. Clearly those who state things as facts are often full of it, but that doesn't mean that I can't say one of my MANY opinion here on the net. -- Ethan Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu "If Commodore had to market sushi they'd call it `raw cold fish'" -- The Bandito, inevitably stolen from someone else