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From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Selling games on USENet - don't!
Message-ID: <1990Jun26.233508.26963@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: 26 Jun 90 23:35:08 GMT
Organization: SF Bay Public-Access Unix
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Please use a little common sense and courtesy when trying to sell your
used Amiga games.  According to the latest news.lists statistics, it
costs $.0025 per kilobyte per site to post an article.  The minimum size
of text and header is around two kilobytes averaged over the net.  There
are in excess of 15,000 leaves in USENet.  Your one little harmless posting
has thus cost at least 15000*$0.0025*2 = $75.00 to the net, to sell your
$15 game, and this only accounts for leaf costs, not inner node transit
costs!

If you must post games for sale to the net, start with the most local
distribution available (local = your site), expand to city, region, state,
after two weeks each.  Never post wider than that.

You will have much better luck selling games, and annoy a lot fewer people,
if you join a local Amiga club and hawk your wares to its members.

Kent, the man from xanth.
<xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>
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in the distance a roasted cave newt screamed in agony -- Andrew Palfreyman