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From: lipa@polya.Stanford.EDU (William J. Lipa)
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Subject: Re: One more time (Re: WHO CARES (was Re: Mac SE for sale)
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Date: 6 Mar 89 19:56:40 GMT
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In article <4206@wiley.UUCP> david@wiley.UUCP (David Hull) writes:
>I, too, wish that people wouldn't post for-sale items to comp.sys.mac.

Me too. Most of the time when I read comp.sys.mac I am not interested in
seeing endless streams of advertisements.

However, I can see that these messages provide a valuable service to the
buyers and sellers of used Mac-related products. It seems to me that a
reasonable solution would be to create a new group for this purpose, called
(for example) misc.forsale.mac.

That way people could conveniently skip over such advertisements except
when they were interested in purchasing or selling something. Also, sites
could choose whether or not they were interested in carrying advertisements
without having to sacrifice all the rest of comp.sys.mac.

Bill Lipa
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