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From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Selling games on USENet - don't!
Message-ID: <1990Jun27.185759.8281@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: 27 Jun 90 18:57:59 GMT
References: <1990Jun26.233508.26963@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <11361@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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In article <11361@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> aegnor@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
(David C. Powell) writes:
>In article <1990Jun26.233508.26963@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
>xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>>Please use a little common sense and courtesy when trying to sell your
>->LOTS deleted to save some money that Kent is SOOO worried about!
>>Kent, the man from xanth.
>This will be quick, sorry to double d@mn this silliness, I try and refrain
>from this type, but I do NOT want people to be put off, hey Kent, what
>if *I* want the game coming out of <insert state> and I can NOT find it local,
>like its out of PRINT/Company out of business <can you say old Infocom and
>old EA games, I new you could!>  I want to see these posts, that is why I
>read them...  thanks for your opinion, and I am gonna be nicely upset if
>all/majority of people refrain from posting games forsale..  sorry again,
>but to reiterate DO NOT stop,

[et cetera, et cetera ... ;-( ]

Well, you do as you please, this is an anarchy, and no one can easily stop
you.  My original posting, however, was written to appeal to those who
might be able to bring some common sense to bear on the question.  There
are reasons to do so.

The latest news from Australia is that they just lost the entire alt.*
distribution (Can someone from Oz confirm?), including alt.sources.amiga;
comp.sys.amiga{,*} and comp.{binaries,sources}.amiga are right up there
at the top by volume of the remaining list of things that can be cut out
to save money; when we are allowing ourselves to look like wastrels, some
more sites, perhaps yours or one that feeds yours, may choose to drop the
Amiga groups.  All this _has_happened_ to the Amiga groups at least once
since they were founded and gained one of the largest volumes on the net.
Lots of sites dropped the Amiga groups when phone costs soared, and picked
them back up only when new networks and faster modem hardware provided
cheaper transmission routes.  Cheaper does not mean free, and the budgets
are starting to strain again.

It only took publicity about a little complaint in the Houston Chronicle
to get sites all over the world to review their need for the alt groups;
many have dropped them in the few weeks since.  How much publicity do you
think the Amiga groups can withstand if we are being blatently inefficient
in our use of net resources?

I only led you to the issue, I can't force you to think.  The "gimme"
generation is alive and well.

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