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- From: boatman@sun1.coe (Tommy Boatman)
- Subject: Re: Split this group!!!
- Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
- Originator: boatman@sun1.coe
- References: <1992Jul21.043241.18679@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.215239.2881@ctr.columbia.edu>
- Sender: news@ctr.columbia.edu (The Daily Lose)
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:52:39 GMT
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- From article <1992Jul21.043241.18679@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, by cak0838@ultb.isc.rit.edu (C.A. Kenyeres ):
- > I really get tired of searching through 100's of messages to get
- > to articles about Amiga hardware for sale. Also when looking for hard
- > drives it's a pain running through 90 MFM/IDE drives for the IBM when
- > I'm
- > looking for SCSI drives. SPLIT THIS GROUP!!!
-
- I thought that was the purpose of comp.sys.amiga.marketplace ?! :)
-
- but seriously... *flame on*
-
- For those of you who haven't been following misc.forsale.computers lately
- (within the past couple of months), there was a thread that I believe went
- as far as RFD to split misc.forsale.computers. The general consesnus was that
- splitting would severely increase the amount of cross-posting and waste of
- bandwidth.
-
- For example - suppose I have a 105 meg SCSI hard drive that I want to sell.
- Where do I put it? misc.forsale.computers.mac, misc.forsale.computers.ibm,
- misc.forsale.computers.amiga, misc.forsale.computers.workstations,
- misc.forsale.computers.hd ? That's five groups instead of one - five
- times the cost to post one stinking ad...If you don't think this will happen,
- let me point you to the comp.sys.sun groups where it still happens today...
- By keeping the group unsplit, I only have to weed through one group instead
- of several.
-
- In a nutshell, I think it would be a waste of everybody's time and money
- to split the group...
-
- *flame off*
-
- -tommy
- boatman@sun1.coe.ttu.edu
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