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From: jbb@contact.uucp (Jordan Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Selling games on USENet - don't!
Message-ID: <1990Jun28.192544.16785@contact.uucp>
Date: 28 Jun 90 19:25:44 GMT
References: <1990Jun26.233508.26963@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <11361@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <8432@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Reply-To: jbb@contact.UUCP (Jordan Baker)
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In article <8432@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> jimmy@uhccux.UUCP (Jimmy Chan) 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.
>>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, I may want that $15 game, and what if <insert
>>person> refrains from posting, there goes how I have boughten <looks up
>>that I bought...  sorry Kent, this is a good use for the net, much better
>>than these endless tirades about people who pirate, IMHO
>>
>
>Kent, I gotta agree with David since I like to pick up software (albeit used) 
>at cheap prices.  Instead of wasting $40+ dollars on something I might not
>used after a couple of months, I feel better spending only $15-25.  There are
>also lots and lots of garbage sometimes being posted so, I don't really 
>see how posting games forsale is anymore worse, also I think they have 
>a forsale newsgroup someplace so the net overall don't seem to mind the 
>forsale postings, IMHO.
>
>Keep those forsale postings coming...anyone wants to sell me their copy
>of Their Finest Hour?...8-)...

 I think this is pathetic. One of the best things about Usenet is that
it's accessable to everyone and that from the user standpoint, it's
free. What we have here is people abusing the network. How would you
feel about comp.sys.amiga.games if 50% of everything that was posted
there are ads for people selling software. I think that if we try to
think of an alternative we can. What about a mail server that you can
request games from and then it looks down a list of games that people
have to sell and then it mails the person who owns the game that you
want to buy and they can mail you back with prices, etc..
 Anyone here willing to donate some time in writing a mail server, or
maybe I'll do it myself..

 -jordan