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From: acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Jim Poltrone)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news.group
Subject: Re: Submitted for your approval: net.forsale
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Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 21:33:40 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 27 21:33:40 1984
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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. :-)