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From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de)
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Subject: RE: hp-28s for sale
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Date: 20 Dec 90 09:49:18 GMT
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>In article <1990Dec19.042455.26155@cc.ic.ac.uk> umapd51@cc.ic.ac.uk (W.A.C. Mier-Jedrzejowicz) writes:
>>John Dutka writes PLEASE DO NOT POST OFFERS IN THIS NEWS GROUP!
>>
>>We have had the same discussion here a few months ago! Some readers feel
>[. . .]
>>Or has the majority opinion changed since the last time this topic was
>>aired? For myself, I would prefer to see the occasional for sale/ wanted
>>message here.
>>
>>Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz, Space & Atmospheric Physics, Imperial College,
>>London.

>I have no problem with the for sale messages, this news group is the place
>that someone who would want to buy one would most likely be.  Plus it is
>sort of a nice barometer.

IMHO this mailing list should not be filled up with sale messages.
Since these messages are interesting for a very limited region of this
world (Dou you want to buy a calculator from Australia, if you live in,
let's say, New York?), and this mailing list is global, this message is 
junk for most of the readers (can and will be ignored like the various
UNSUBSCRIBE HANDHELDS postings). People who want to sell something are
better putting their things into a group like misc.forsale(.computers)
or a local usenet group for this purposes. 
I dont think that same messages are a barometer for anything. You won't
hear anything of people who are happy with their calculators, and those who
sell theirs have different reasons for this (such contrary as not being 
lucky with it or even upgrading to a better one). Thus selling a HP-anything
is just selling a HP-anything, and not an indicator that HP-anythings are
not worth their money.

Regards,

Holger Veit
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