Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!know!login From: Eric Edwards Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: (none Message-ID: <22891@know.pws.bull.com> Date: 2 Apr 91 20:37:27 GMT Sender: login@pws.bulL.com Lines: 61 In Message-ID: <49457@nigel.ee.udel.edu> lou@vaxsc said: >In Article <63474@bbn.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, 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 > >I have to agree here! I don't. There are two times when I read usenet. 1) When I looking to buy something. 2) When I'm not looking to buy something. When I'm looking to buy something, .marketplace information becomes intensely interesting to me. I read through comp.sys.amiga.marketplace with a fine tooth comb looking for info that may help me get a better deal. I can do this becuase comp.sys.amiga.marketplace is a fairly low volume group. If you post this info in .hardware I'm likely to miss it. The volume is just too high and it would get mixed in with lots of threads that I don't want to read. The other time I read usenet is when I'm not looking to buy something. Most of the time I read usenet, I'm either content with what I have or don't have the cash to do anything about it. I hate seeing for-sale posts in discussion groups I regularly read. They convey no usefull information to me nor are they in the least bit entertaining. I might try to control this with a kill file. "But wait!", You say. "Sometimes I'm not sure!" You're right. Sometimes I get the urge to look how prices and such are shaping up. Maybe some item is now within my reach. As it is now, I just read comp.sys.amiga.marketplace There they are. 2-weeks worth of barter-talk. I may not have missed a thing. But in you senario these posts went into .hardware (or .games or whatever) I know there were some market stuff in here but where'd it go? Oh, yeah. My kill file ate them. Yeeg, i don't want to wade through all my killed messages. >Further, I am limited to posting via the amiga-relay, >and that limits me to these newsgroups for posting (i.e. comp.sys.amiga.misc, >comp.sys.amiga.hardware, and comp.sys.amiga.games). Until I get news ABRA-CADABRA, ALAKAZAM! comp.sys.amiga.marketplace@pws.bull.com comp-sys-amiga-marketplace@ucbvax.berkeley.edu ANYBODY can post to an ARBITRARY newsgroup. (the format should be obvious) This has been posted lots of times. Neither pws.bull.com nor ucbvax.berkeley.edu are 100% reliable but they're at least as good as amiga-relay and I speak from experience. Eric Edwards: c506634 @ "The 3090. Proof that by applying state of the Inet: umcvmb.missouri.edu art technology to an obsolete architecture, Bitnet: umcvmb.bitnet one can achieve mediocre performance."