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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqles)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news.group
Subject: Re: Re: Submitted for your approval: net.forsale
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Date: Fri, 21-Sep-84 12:18:32 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 21 12:18:32 1984
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> 	>Maybe there should be a new group for these "for sale" postings:
> 	>net.forsale.
> 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 has a point. To be quite honest most areas already have a forum for
things being sold. Around here, it is called ba.general. This limits the
distributions only to those sites in the Bay Area (generically San
Francisco to San Jose more or less). Almost every region on the net has
regional only groups set up. People should learn about them and be willing
to use them-- 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. It all
comes down to something called audience and demographics. The big ad
agencies know that if you are trying to sell to the people in Duluth you
don't buy ad time in Rochester. We should take a hint from that. Ask your
local guru what the local groups are, and use them! 

The previous has been an unpaid political announcement by the Bill the Cat
for president committee. Any resemblance to intelligent conversation,
whether living or dead, is completely coincidental. Besides, it probably
won't do any good.


-- 
From the spotlight of the center ring:		Chuqles Von Rospach
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Never force anyone to do anything for you 'in the
name of love.' Love is not to be bargained for.