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- From: mbeck@bbn.com
- Newsgroups: misc.forsale.computers
- Subject: Re: Stop "Wanted: " in the forsale group?
- Date: 22 Jul 1992 13:58:55 GMT
- Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.
- Lines: 24
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <l6qqcvINN4g6@news.bbn.com>
- References: <1992Jul16.234924@aminet.uucp> <39691@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> <1992Jul21.140915.1328@eskimo.celestial.com>
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- In article <1992Jul21.140915.1328@eskimo.celestial.com>
- mann@eskimo.celestial.com (Tom Mann) writes:
- >In article <39691@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com>, wdarden@nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com
- (Bill Darden <wdarden>) writes:
- >>
- >> I agree with you that there are to many WANTED postings to this
- >> newsgroup and I do it as well, but there are a couple of reasons.
- >> First, most computer hardware sellers are also buyers, so they
- >> read this newsgroup and not the general misc.wanted newsgroup.
- >
- >Precisely! I post here because I am frequently looking for information
- >or hardware that people may have forgotten they own or had worked on.
- >If there was a misc.wanted.computer group I would try posting there
- >but if I didn't get aproximately the same response rate I would be
- >sore tempted to continue to post here.
-
- Also, the WANTED ads don't bother me, since they appear at the end of the list,
- because their subjects almost always start with WANTED: ....
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