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From: david@wiley.UUCP (David Hull)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: One more time (Re: WHO CARES (was Re: Mac SE for sale)
Message-ID: <4206@wiley.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 89 19:34:30 GMT
References: <3672@utastro.UUCP> <1162@bub.sdl.UUCP>
Reply-To: david@wiley.UUCP (David Hull)
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Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <1162@bub.sdl.UUCP> lad@sdl.UUCP (Lawrence A. Deleski) writes:
>I had several people agree with posting for sale
>items to this group, not one against (except you, of course).

I, too, wish that people wouldn't post for-sale items to comp.sys.mac.

I look at it as a case of what's fair.  We have to remember that in
Usenet, unlike commercial information services, the costs are borne
by everybody, not just the poster and the readers.

So, who benefits from the typical posting in which some question gets
asked or answered?  Assuming that we learn something, everybody.  Who
benefits from a for-sale notice?  Two people: the seller and the
buyer.  So I ask, is it fair that I should pay for the cost of your
advertisement?

I agree with Werner: people who have something to sell should take out
a classified ad in their local newspaper.  Let those who benefit bear
the costs.

-David