Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!marlin!jbjones From: jbjones@marlin.NOSC.MIL (John B. Jones) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Results of informal vote on F-O-R S-A-L-E items Summary: With a reach like that you should be playing hoop Message-ID: <1197@marlin.NOSC.MIL> Date: 16 Aug 89 15:48:46 GMT References: <11590@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Reply-To: jbjones@marlin.nosc.mil.UUCP (John B. Jones) Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego Lines: 28 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 | My conclusion about the above numbers, then, is that there is | sufficient interest in FOR SALE postings that it should continue. I'd That's crazy. There are more than twice as many no votes as yes votes. I think you're shielding your eyes from results you don't like. There are groups for selling things; I don't read them because I don't want to buy anything right now. I read this group to find out more about the fine points of ibm pc systems. That's what the name implies. If I want to find out how much they cost I can go to a forsale group and get that information. Posting a for-sale message to this group is the ear mark of being out of touch with group goals; only two people would do it: a disoriented new user, or a selfish person who wants visability at the price of consideration. In essence, think of the group as a whole.... jbjones@marlin.nosc.mil DISCLAIMER:I set forth these convictions as my own alone.