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From: jimmy@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Jimmy Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Selling games on USENet - don't!
Message-ID: <8436@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Date: 28 Jun 90 02:51:51 GMT
References: <1990Jun26.233508.26963@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <11361@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <1990Jun27.185759.8281@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Reply-To: jimmy@uhccux.UUCP (Jimmy Chan)
Organization: University of Hawaii
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In article <1990Jun27.185759.8281@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> you write:
>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?
>

Well here in Hawaii the alt.sex.* and alt.drugs newsgroups were dropped
from our sites as of last week or 2 weeks ago due to the complaints in
some mainland newspapers of the type of discussions and postings that
were going on in those newsgroups.  Now there is even talk of removing
alt.* newsgroups altogether since they do not carry information that is
necessary for University use.  So far we don't have to worry about getting
and amiga newsgroups dropped as yet though once alt.* newgroups get dropped
for whatever reason, I can see others being dropped for not being pertinent
to the uses of a University.

Kent, I still do not want to see forsale notices being removed but maybe
relocated?  I would rather buy used games than new ones, easier on my
wallet.  Though I would not want others to lose their newsgroups access
but I don't know if removing forsale notices will still help as the amount
of forsale notices to any other posting is almost neglible.  (though I am
talking of games for sale and not computer systems, as there seem to be
many of those being offered for sale now since the A3000 is shipping.)
I really can't say what the solution is but I will be disappointed when
I can't buy used games from people on the net as I look for these often.

Maybe a solution is maybe an email list for selling stuff?...8-)..just 
something that popped into my mind so don't take it seriously.

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