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From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (ody)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Results of informal vote on F-O-R S-A-L-E items
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Date: 15 Aug 89 15:35:06 GMT
References: <11590@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
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In article <11590@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> tim@cit-vax.UUCP (Timothy L. Kay) writes:

| Now, on to the vote.  I received 20 replies (including one from
| myself).  Should FOR SALE items appear in comp.sys.ibm.pc?
| 
| 	YES:	 6
| 	NO:	14
| 
| How should we interpret this?  If the net were a strict democracy,
| then nothing could be posted.  (If somebody asked me if postings about
| word processors should be allowed, I would respond NO simply because I
| am not interested in talking about word processors.)

| My conclusion about the above numbers, then, is that there is
| sufficient interest in FOR SALE postings that it should continue.  I'd
| like to suggest a few rules:

  My conclusion is that you had no interest in an actual survey, and
your conclusions are totally at odds with the result. People who want to
buy things can read the for.sale group. This group is not for selling
things, or discussing selling things, it's for PC discussion.

Replies redirected to the correct group.
	bill davidsen		(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me