Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gatech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!whuxle!akgua!gatech!spaf From: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news.group Subject: Re: Submitted for your approval: net.forsale Message-ID: <10309@gatech.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 23:55:57 EDT Article-I.D.: gatech.10309 Posted: Tue Sep 25 23:55:57 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Oct-84 03:56:06 EDT References: <550@sunybcs.UUCP> <5988@mcvax.UUCP> Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech Lines: 24 > 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 Phone: (404) 894-6169, (404) 894-6170 [messages] CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ CSNet-Relay.ARPA uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,masscomp,ut-ngp}!gatech!spaf ...!{rlgvax,sb1,seismo,uf-cgrl,unmvax,ut-sally}!gatech!spaf