Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!aegnor From: aegnor@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (David C. Powell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Selling games on USENet - don't! Message-ID: <11365@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Date: 28 Jun 90 07:01:50 GMT References: <1990Jun26.233508.26963@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <11361@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <1990Jun27.185759.8281@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Reply-To: aegnor@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (David C. Powell) Organization: Xetwnk Industries, Ltd. Lines: 67 Followup-To:comp.sys.amiga.games Keywords:STOP the drivel.... In article <1990Jun27.185759.8281@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >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 >[et cetera, et cetera ... ;-( ] by the by, most of this would have been pretty much totally avoided if you SAID WHAT YOU MEANT first, not AFTER the fact... all you talked about was COST (that I pay for at my site, can you say 5 years tuition, I new you could...) not that you had ANY fear(s) of groups being dropped... > >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 blah blah blah... 1/2 :-) Thanks Kent, (this is only going to games by the by) now to repeat what I have been saying in mail, your FIRST post said nothing about your fears about droppage of comp.amiga.*, would have quelled my 'knee-jerk' some... as you will read in your mail, say what you mean FIRST not as the afterthought, I am NOT physchic (sp?) and can NOT tell what your greater fear is... your post has some good points and some bad, my rationale is that I read the stuff I am interested in and you do the same, the other stuff we ALL subsidize be it THIS drivel or 'pirates are scum' for WEEKS drivel or or or... you get the point, I subsidize YOUR stuff you like, you do the same for me, what we call push and pull, tit for tat, etc. How bout we just keep ALL computer anything in misc.forsale/.computers and SHOOT anybody who disobeys (be they employee of C=, piddly game seller or what not, I care no more to see $3000 Amiga 2000's I can NOT afford posted ANYWHERE but in the forsale groups then..... and or we BAN all forsale except for local newspapers, yeah heaven forbid I might want to buy something from California (Hi Patrick H.) and deserve NOT to know about it I guess..) if 'all posts are NOT created equal' and the person selling the most expensive item is in the 'right' and the person selling the $15 game/$25 S100 'pc' should quit, then I guess I have the concept of the 'net' wrong... I always thought it was a 'pretty' open FORUM where any and all (to a certain, loosely defined extent) types of discussions/posts could be made... OOPS... :-( -dcp p.s. sorry .game readers, this is MY LAST post on the subject, KENT if you want to keep this up, use mail... I hate public 'shield banging' David C. Powell M.I.S. Graduate Class of 1990 Ball State University Muncie, Indiana *-David Powell :ARPA: aegnor@bsu-cs.bsu.edu--------------------------* | \/ President :UUCP: !{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!aegnor | | /\etwnk Industries, Ltd. : | *-"If it doesn't work, we DIDN'T do it!"-----------------------------*