Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84 chuqui version 1.4 9/15/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqles) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news.group Subject: Re: Re: Submitted for your approval: net.forsale Message-ID: <1483@nsc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Sep-84 12:18:32 EDT Article-I.D.: nsc.1483 Posted: Fri Sep 21 12:18:32 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 21:22:18 EDT References: <550@sunybcs.UUCP> <5988@mcvax.UUCP> Organization: Clown Alley Lines: 32 > >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 {amd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA Never force anyone to do anything for you 'in the name of love.' Love is not to be bargained for.