Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:27889 alt.flame:4950 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!elroy!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,alt.flame Subject: what the fuck ? Over. Message-ID: <12993@gryphon.COM> Date: 7 Mar 89 03:22:18 GMT Reply-To: macflame@panchax.gryphon.COM Followup-To: hell Distribution: na Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 32 (from news.groups) In article <7459@polya.Stanford.EDU> lipa@polya.Stanford.EDU (William J. Lipa) writes: >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. Duh. Did it ever occur to your pea sized monochrome minds that misc.forsale might be a good place to advertise a computer for sale, or that misc.wanted might be a nifty place to post a request asking if anybody had a system they might want to sell. And *of course* perpetuate the long standing USENET tradition and post your articles to both at the same time. >[Note followup to news.groups] Note follow-up to hell. -- Memory parity error. Abort, retry or ignore ? richard@gryphon.COM decwrl!gryphon!richard gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.NASA.GOV