Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!sunybcs!acsgjjp From: acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Jim Poltrone) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news.group Subject: Re: Submitted for your approval: net.forsale Message-ID: <587@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 21:33:40 EDT Article-I.D.: sunybcs.587 Posted: Thu Sep 27 21:33:40 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Sep-84 06:38:45 EDT References: <550@sunybcs.UUCP> <5988@mcvax.UUCP> <1483@nsc.UUCP> Organization: State University of New York @ Buffalo,NY Lines: 36 This is a corrected posting of an earlier article which I had cancelled. (I didn't include Piet's statement, which made Chuq's quote appear as if Piet had said it.) So if you get <582@sunybcs.UUCP>, burn it. Ok? --jp >> ..... This is typically >> not a worldwide but a domestic newsgroup, thus it should be called something >> like usa.forsale (!! :-)) or even more area-restricted. > ..... it really isn't appropriate for someone in New Jersey to > offer me an apartment rental because the commute costs to Sunnyvale would > kill me. It also isn't appropriate to try to sell Piet a car from Oregon > because the import restrictions are very costly and time consuming. A very good point, brought up by Piet Beertema (piet@mcvax), and seconded by Chuqui von Rospach (chuqui@nsc). If I had something for sale here in Buffalo, and someone else in another part of the country wanted it (why? I don't know. He's on third, and I don't give a darn! :-) ), would he/she be willing to come all the way here to inspect and/or purchase? I don't have the time/money/resources to go there and complete the trans- action, and neither do most of the people on the Net. The reason I proposed net.forsale is so that all these "for sale" notices woudn't appear in net.general, which is one of the most widely-read (if not the most read) newsgroups. Plus it would give me something to unsubscribe to. However, I have received some support for the creation of net.forsale (about 10-12 letters). But I have to leave the creation of newsgroups to the powers that be, namely, Mark Horton (mark@cbosgd). So until the newsgroups net.classifieds.* (with the subdivisions wanted, forsale, housing, etc.) are created, PLEASE.... *** use (your area).wanted for the time being for for-sale announcements. *** > The previous has been an unpaid political announcement by the Bill the Cat > for president committee. "ACK!" I want to join this committee! If I can't, I'll be forced to go work on a dental floss farm in Montana. :-)