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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: ADMIN: "For sale" postings
Keywords: WRONG GROUPS
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Date: 31 Mar 91 13:46:14 GMT
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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, 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.  If the right thing is being hawked in the right
group [selling ATalkIII on csa.games is clearly a nuisance to
everyone], 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?

Recall that the big Amiga-newsgroups reorganization was a bit of an
experiment, and I think that overall it has been a pretty big success
[although I confess I was pretty skeptical].  I don't have a problem
deciding that csa.marketplace didn't work out so well in the face of
virtually everything else to do with the reorganization being OK.

/Bernie\