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From: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news.group
Subject: Re: Submitted for your approval: net.forsale
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Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 23:55:57 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 25 23:55:57 1984
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> I welcome the idea. But PLEASE don't name it net.forsale! This is typically
> not a worldwide but a domestic newsgroup, thus it should be called something
> like usa.forsale (!! :-)) or even more area-restricted.
>
> 	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam


I think most everyone is agreed that we need a forsale group.  I also
think that we are agreed that such groups should be fairly local, but
there are bozos out there who don't (or won't) use local distributions
(not to mention the sofftware which doesn't support it and which the
site administrators can't or won't upgrade).

Unless I receive significant negative response, I will create a
usa.forsale in early October.  At that time I will update the
list-of-newsgroups and also post an announcement in net.announce
so that people being using it instead of net.wanted.
-- 
Off the Wall of Gene Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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