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From: tsarna@polar.bowdoin.edu (Tyler Sarna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: For Sale postings in c.s.a.x, x != marketplace
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Date: 4 May 91 04:24:30 GMT
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lou@vaxsc writes:

> I believe the latest post certainly didn't deserve this!

No, it didn't. My post wasn't directed against any particular
poster, rather to prevent people from thinking that this sort of
thing is ok. When I make individual replies to this kind of 
post, I am careful to be very polite. However, this latest
rash of mal-postings in such a short time period leads me
to beleive that people are seeing other postings and thinking
that it's ok, since everyone else does it.

> >I have noticed from time to time that people advertise Amiga items here. Is
> >it proper to do this here? Do you guys mind when people advertise here? Do
> >you always look in misc.forsale.computers? What about in comp.sys.amiga.misc?
> 
> And (see your response above) that's the best you can do to respond to a very 
> nicely asked question?    Do you have many close friends?

I did not reply to this post. I made no attributions, and had an
entirely different subject line. The timing was merely
co-incidental. I do have close friends :-)

> In sum, Please try to educate instead of flame!   Flame wars simply make people
> mad, and then they'll do things just to spite you.

They can go aheead if they want. You don't sell things by spiting
potential customers. The only harm done is to themselves. My
post wasn't intended as a flame against anyone, as everyone
makes mistakes (and one person, for example, just returned to
the newsgroup and wasn't aware of the re-orginization). Rather,
my purpose was to give a firm warning on the subject, and to try
to prevent further trouble.

I'm not trying to be the net.police, I'm just trying to give a
firm statement of my opinion. People most often do what's right,
they just don't always know what that is.

No offence intended, sorry if it appeared that way.

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Tyler "Ty" Sarna                         tsarna@polar.bowdoin.edu

      "I protest Captain! I am NOT a merry man!" -- Lt. Worf