Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!scotth
From: scotth@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: For sale: -- GS system
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.152048.19345@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 30 Jan 91 15:20:48 GMT
References: <7355297@ub.cc.umich.edu> <1991Jan24.191417.10278@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Jan29.235150.16185@utstat.uucp>
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Lines: 34

In article <1991Jan29.235150.16185@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
>In article <1991Jan24.191417.10278@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> scotth@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Henderson) writes:
>
>[support for "for sale" messages...]
>
>I agree that there doesn't seem to be anything terribly wrong with
>these occasional postings at first glance. The problem, though, is
>that many of us could have comp.sys.apple2 deleted from our
>newsgroups because of them. You can't imagine what I had to go
>through to convince people to bring it into our system. I would
>not want to defend the group again in the face of lot's of AppleII
>for sale signs.
>
>Philip McDunnough
>University of Toronto
>philip@utstat.toronto.edu
>[not the opinions of my employer, necessarily]

Here's my suggestion for a reasonable compromise.  As a method of convention,
people who post for sale messages should have "FOR SALE" in the subject 
heading.  You can then use the "K" command from read news and not have to 
see the for sale post.  Your argument about comp.sys.apple2 being a research
newsgroup is a valid one, however the same argument can be made about people
who ask questions about video games on this group (does the question about
Dragon Wars ring a bell? :-) ).  There's a rec.games.video newsgroup for
that purpose as well.



-- 
=  R. Scott Henderson		       =  "Some people claim that there's a  =
=  University of Illinois              =   woman to blame, but I know it's   =
=  scotth@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu             =   my own damned fault.              =
=  Apple II Forever!	               =              -Jimmy Buffet          =