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From: poirier@ellerbe.rtp.dg.com (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: ADMIN: "For sale" postings
Summary: There are channels for changing the rules
Keywords: WRONG GROUPS
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.201752.21009@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Date: 3 Apr 91 20:17:52 GMT
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In article <63474@bbn.BBN.COM> cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes:
>ferry@chorus.fr (F. de Jong) writes:
>
>}As you have all seen there are very often postings in these two groups with
>}offers to sell hardware and software. May I remind everybody that these
>}are not the right groups to post these kind of things in. There is a
>}special group called comp.sys.amiga.marketplace.
>
>That's all nice and tidy,

Yes.  That's why it was set up this way.

>but this is a place where theory fails us and
>(anarchic) practice serves MUCH better.  I can think of no better place
>to post a game-for-sale than to comp.sys.amiga.games, nor a hard disk
>to .hardware, etc.

A reasonable theory, but there was *plenty* of time for discussing this during
the reorg and this is *not* what was decided upon.  People voted to separate
sales/wanted postings from other types of postings.  If you are calling
for discussion of a re-reorg, you should say so explicitly.  To encourage
people to abuse the organization we have now, is simply disruptive.

>If the right thing is being hawked in the right group...
>I think people should just be left alone.  Do you have some
>specific complaint about such postings, or do you just not like seeing
>'rules' flouted?

Specific complaint:
Flouting of rules creates noise.  Noise is bad.  Organization is better
than anarchy, on the net at least.  Don't post something to a more
general group when a more specific group exists for that exact purpose.

>deciding that csa.marketplace didn't work out so well in the face of

This claim rather jumps the gun, don't you think?  You don't pitch out
a brand new newsgroup just because people haven't learned to use it yet.

	Cheers,
	Charles Poirier   poirier@dg-rtp.dg.com