Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!yale!spolsky-joel From: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: NO MORE FOR SALE ADDS !!!!!! Summary: pretty please? Message-ID: <41344@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 26 Oct 88 01:59:59 GMT References: <1734@bu-tyng.bu.edu> <16800384@clio> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 28 In article <16800384@clio> berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu writes: | What's wrong with posting computer merchandise for sale in a | computer notefile? Obviously, all the notes here won't appeal | to you. But personal for-sale ads do us all some good. Some lucky netlanders get to read news on a big 19" monitor at about 56,000 baud, including myself. We can hit "n" in a split second to flip past Joe Shmo in Albuquerque selling some memory chips. Unfortunately many poor souls are still in the dark ages, and they read news at 1200 baud or even worse. At 1200 baud it can take 15 seconds to flip past Joe Shmo's for sale ad. When someone has a garage sale it can take quite a long time to flip through the garbage, while you agonizingly wait as your too-slow modem gives you one... character... at... a... time. That's when For Sale ads get really annoying, especially since there _is_ a newsgroup (misc.forsale) that is supposed to fill this purpose. It's kind of like being forced to read classified ads in a professional journal. I shall give up on trying to police the net, but it would be nice if people would show a little consideration of their fellow netlanders. +----------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | Joel Spolsky | bitnet: spolsky@yalecs uucp: ...!yale!spolsky | | | arpa: spolsky@yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1483 | +----------------+---------------------------------------------------+ #include