Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!en.ecn.purdue.edu!coxr From: coxr@ecn.purdue.edu (Richard L Cox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: misc.forsale.computers Message-ID: <1990Jun29.165041.10020@ecn.purdue.edu> Date: 29 Jun 90 16:50:41 GMT References: <900627.10113738.058241@SFA.CP6> <9094@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <13265@smoke.BRL.MIL> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network Lines: 33 >>From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) >Subject: Re: misc.forsale.computers >Message-ID: <13265@smoke.BRL.MIL> >Date: 28 Jun 90 17:12:11 GMT >Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. > >In article <9094@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> rankins@argentina.crd.ge.com (raymond r rankins) writes: >>>>Please refrain from posting such articles to comp.* groups in the future. >>I'll still cross post my stuff for sale here. > >If you can't cooperate with the folks attempting to administer USEnet, >then leave. It was NEVER appropriate or even LEGAL for you to try to >use this technical newsgroup, which is carried over government-owned >facilities among others, for commercial purposes. It's also contrary >to the intent of any technical newsgroup. This is NOT a small-time >BBS, but a very extensive network, on which the cost of propagating >personal "for sale" items far exceeds the total value of such items. >This is well understood by long-standing net citizens. Get with the >program. If we are allowed to post to misc.forsale.computers then does it cost more to post to a different newsgroup instead? I doubt it. Let's not get too gung-ho about this government thing, I don't remember many companies posting their catalogs or ads. Not to mention that many of of out here are paying the government every year so I hardly think we are abusing the net by helping each other out with trades and upgrages. If the newsgroup wants the ads in this group why not let them or at least take a vote. And as far as this being a technical newsgroup, sure it is but we are all users too just trying to help each other out. Let's all relax a bit and take in just a little more fiber eh?!? peace -Rich